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^ See The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants for a lower estimate. The "The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights". Archived from the original on 30 December 2007.  states on its web site that in 2000 the World Council of Churches claimed that "between two and five million Sudanese have come to Egypt in recent years". Most Sudanese refugees come to Egypt in the hope of resettling in Europe or the US. ^ The population of Egypt is estimated as being 90% Muslim, 9% Coptic Christian and 1% other Christian by the US Department of State ("Background Note: Egypt". US Department of State. 2010-11-10. Retrieved 2011-03-05. ); the CIA World Factbook ("Egypt". CIA. 2008-09-04. ) and the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office ("Egypt". Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 2008-08-15. ). Microsoft Encarta Online similarly estimates the Sunni population at 90% of the total. ("Egypt". Microsoft Encarta Online. 2008-09-30. Archived from the original on 2009-10-21. ). The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life gave a higher estimate of the Muslim population at 94.6% ("Mapping The Global Muslim Population" (PDF). Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. p. 8. Retrieved 25 July 2011. )