In the 2011 Census 59.5 per cent of the population of England and Wales identified as Christian. Populations of Other Religions in the U.S., like Unitarians, Wiccans, and Sikhs, are also expected to rise. Furthermore, people who identify as Hindu will also grow from the current.
Of these, 56.2 million (87.2 per cent) were White British. Some sources may just use the term Asian, others may differentiate between different Asian groups or different religious groups.) Where we have used other organisations’ statistics, we have followed the categorisation/names used by them – which means that there may be inconsistencies in terminology within and between pages.Īccording to the Office for National Statistics, there were approximately 64.6 million people living in the UK in mid-2014. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. (For example, some sources differentiate between particular black ‘groups’ whilst others do not. The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. In Belgium, residents believed that 27 percent of the population was Muslim, while in reality, it was only five percent.These statistics have been collated from a variety of different sources, which have differing ways of categorising and describing ‘race’ and ethnicity.
Germany, for example, predicted a Muslim population of 21 percent while the actual Muslim population was four percent. This overestimation of the Muslim population is in line with the rest of Europe. In 2018, the Dutch population believed that 20 percent of the population was Muslim, even though only five percent were Muslim. It shows, therefore, that some religions see significantly higher participation rates despite a lower percentage identifying with it.ĭoes the percentage of Muslims in the Netherlands align with the perceived percentage of Muslims? The highest participation rate is in the group 'other' with four percent, despite only 10 percent identifying in those religions. The most prominent religious group, the Roman Catholics, only saw a participation of three percent, the same as those identifying with the Protestant Church, despite only six percent identifying with that denomination. The percentage of people in the Netherlands who participate in a religion is not necessarily the same as that of people who identify with a religion. The percentage of people who identify as Muslim has remained the same at five percent over the years.ĭo the people who identify with a religion always participate? In 2020, 14 percent of the Dutch population considered themselves a member of the three main protestant churches, the Dutch Reformed Church, the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, and the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands. The largest religious group in 2020 was the Roman Catholic group, with 20 percent of Dutch people identifying as Roman Catholic. Between 20 in the Netherlands, the percentage of people who do not identify with any religion increased from 45 percent to 55 percent.
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