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Some European countries have experienced a decline in church membership and church attendance.[6][7] A relevant example of this trend is Sweden where the Church of Sweden, previously the state-church until 2000, claimed to have 82.9% of the Swedish population as its flock in 2000. Surveys showed this had dropped to 72.9% by 2008[8] and to 56.4% by 2019.[9] Moreover, in the 2005 Eurobarometer survey 23%[10] of the Swedish population said that they do not believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force and in the 2010 Eurobarometer survey 34%[2] said the same.
Gallup survey 2008–2009
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During 2008–2009, a
0%–9% | |
10%–19% (Estonia, Sweden, Denmark) | |
20%–29% (Norway, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Finland) | |
30%–39% (France, Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus, Luxembourg, Hungary, Albania, Latvia) | |
40%–49% (Germany, Switzerland, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain) | |
50%–59% (Azerbaijan, Serbia, Ireland, Austria) | |
60%–69% | |
70%–79% (Croatia, Montenegro, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Cyprus, North Macedonia) | |
80%–89% (Turkey, Romania, Malta, Armenia, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina) | |
90%–100% (Kosovo, Georgia) | |
No data |
During 2007–2008, a
Eurobarometer survey 2010
The 2010 Eurobarometer survey[2] found that, on average, 51% of the citizens of the EU member states state that they "believe there is a God", 26% "believe there is some sort of spirit or life force" while 20% "don't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force". 3% declined to answer. According to a recent study (Dogan, Mattei, Religious Beliefs in Europe: Factors of Accelerated Decline), 47% of French people declared themselves as agnostics in 2003. This situation is often called "
The following is a list of European countries ranked by religiosity, based on the rate of belief, according to the Eurobarometer survey 2010.[2] The 2010 Eurobarometer survey asked whether the person "believes there is a God", "believes there is some sort of spirit or life force", or "doesn't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force".
Country | "I believe there is a God" |
"I believe there is some sort of spirit or life force" |
"I don't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force" |
---|---|---|---|
Malta | 94% | 4% | 2% |
Romania | 93% | 6% | 1% |
Cyprus | 88% | 8% | 3% |
Poland | 79% | 14% | 5% |
Greece | 79% | 16% | 4% |
Italy | 74% | 20% | 6% |
Ireland | 70% | 20% | 7% |
Portugal | 70% | 15% | 12% |
Slovakia | 63% | 23% | 13% |
Spain | 59% | 20% | 19% |
Lithuania | 47% | 37% | 12% |
Luxembourg | 46% | 22% | 24% |
Hungary | 45% | 34% | 20% |
Austria | 44% | 38% | 12% |
Germany | 44% | 25% | 27% |
Latvia | 38% | 48% | 11% |
United Kingdom
|
37% | 33% | 25% |
Belgium | 37% | 31% | 27% |
Bulgaria | 36% | 43% | 15% |
Finland | 33% | 42% | 22% |
Slovenia | 32% | 36% | 26% |
Denmark | 28% | 47% | 24% |
Netherlands
|
28% | 39% | 30% |
France | 27% | 27% | 40% |
Estonia | 18% | 50% | 29% |
Sweden | 18% | 45% | 34% |
Czech Republic | 16% | 44% | 37% |
EU27 | 51% | 26% | 20% |
Turkey (EUCU, not EU) | 94% | 1% | 1% |
joined EU in 2013 )
|
69% | 22% | 7% |
Switzerland (EFTA, not EU) | 44% | 39% | 11% |
Iceland (EFTA, not EU) | 31% | 49% | 18% |
Norway (EFTA, not EU) | 22% | 44% | 29% |
The decrease in theism is illustrated in the 1981 and 1999 according to the World Values Survey,[17] both for traditionally strongly theist countries (Spain: 86.8%:81.1%; Ireland 94.8%:93.7%) and for traditionally secular countries (Sweden: 51.9%:46.6%; France 61.8%:56.1%; Netherlands 65.3%:58.0%). Some countries nevertheless show increase of theism over the period, Italy 84.1%:87.8%, Denmark 57.8%:62.1%. For a comprehensive study on Europe, see Mattei Dogan's "Religious Beliefs in Europe: Factors of Accelerated Decline" in Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion.
Eurobarometer survey 2019
According to the 2019
Country | "Atheist" | "Non believer/Agnostic" | "Atheist + Non believer/Agnostic" |
---|---|---|---|
Romania | 2% | 2% | 4% |
Malta | 2% | 2% | 4% |
Cyprus | 3% | 4% | 7% |
Poland | 5% | 4% | 9% |
Lithuania | 3% | 6% | 9% |
Greece | 7% | 4% | 11% |
Slovakia | 6% | 5% | 11% |
Croatia | 6% | 5% | 11% |
Portugal | 4% | 8% | 12% |
Ireland | 7% | 7% | 14% |
Italy | 5% | 9% | 14% |
Bulgaria | 8% | 7% | 15% |
Austria | 4% | 12% | 16% |
Slovenia | 14% | 4% | 18% |
Latvia | 6% | 13% | 19% |
Hungary | 3% | 17% | 20% |
Denmark | 9% | 13% | 22% |
Finland | 10% | 14% | 24% |
Luxembourg | 10% | 16% | 26% |
Germany | 9% | 21% | 30% |
Belgium | 10% | 21% | 31% |
Spain | 12% | 20% | 32% |
United Kingdom
|
19% | 20% | 39% |
France | 21% | 19% | 40% |
Estonia | 21% | 27% | 48% |
Sweden | 16% | 34% | 50% |
Netherlands
|
11% | 41% | 52% |
Czech Republic | 22% | 34% | 56% |
EU28 | 10% | 17% | 27% |
Maps
Pew Research Poll
According to the 2012 Global Religious Landscape survey by the Pew Research Center, 75.2% of the Europe residents are Christians, 18.2% are irreligious, atheist or agnostic, 5.9% are Muslims and 0.2% are Jews, 0.2% are Hindus, 0.2% are Buddhist, and 0.1% adhere to other religions.[21] According to the 2015 Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe survey by the Pew Research Center, 57.9% of the Central and Eastern Europeans identified as Orthodox Christians,[22] and according to a 2018 study by the Pew Research Center, 71.0% of Western Europeans identified as Christians, 24.0% identified as religiously unaffiliated and 5% identified as adhere to other religions.[23] According to the same study a large majority (83%) of those who were raised as Christians in Western Europe still identify as such, and the remainder mostly self-identify as religiously unaffiliated.[23]
Pew Research Poll
Country | Affiliated Orthodox, Catholic or Muslim (poll 1) |
Unaffiliated (poll 1) |
Other/DK/ref (poll 1)* |
"Believe in God, absolutely certain" (poll 2)** |
"Believe in God, fairly certain" (poll 2)** |
"Believe in God, not too/at all certain" (poll 2)** |
"Do not believe in God" (Poll 2)** |
Atheist (poll 3)*** |
Agnostic (poll 3)*** |
Nothing in particular (poll 3)*** |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Armenia | 97 | 2 | 1 | 94 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
Georgia | 99 | <1 | 1 | 93 | 2 | 2 | 1 | <1 | ||
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 96 | 3 | 1 | 90 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
Moldova | 95 | 2 | 3 | 89 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
Romania | 91 | 1 | 8 | 64 | 28 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||
Serbia | 94 | 4 | 1 | 73 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Croatia | 90 | 7 | 3 | 72 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Greece | 92 | 4 | 4 | 69 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | |
Poland | 88 | 7 | 5 | 45 | 35 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Lithuania | 78 | 6 | 17 | 34 | 34 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 4 | |
Ukraine | 88 | 7 | 5 | 32 | 45 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 | |
Bulgaria | 91 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 40 | 7 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Latvia | 54 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 34 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 18 | |
Belarus | 86 | 3 | 11 | 26 | 47 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 | |
Hungary | 57 | 21 | 22 | 26 | 26 | 7 | 30 | 5 | 16 | |
Russia | 81 | 15 | 4 | 25 | 38 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
Czech Republic | 22 | 72 | 6 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 66 | 25 | 1 | 46 |
Estonia | 26 | 45 | 29 | 13 | 24 | 7 | 45 | 9 | 1 | 35 |
(*) 13% of respondents in Hungary identify as Presbyterian. In Estonia and Latvia, 20%
and 19%, respectively, identify as Lutherans. And in Lithuania, 14% say they are "just a
Christian" and do not specify a particular denomination. They are included in the "other"
category.
(**) Identified as "don't know/refused" from the "other/idk/ref" column are excluded from this statistic.
(***) Figures may not add to subtotals due to rounding.
Country | A holy book (e.g. Bible) is written by men, not the word of God |
A holy book is the word of God |
---|---|---|
Georgia | 9% |
88% |
Armenia | 9% |
87% |
Moldova | 10% |
87% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 14% |
81% |
Romania | 18% |
76% |
Ukraine | 21% |
63% |
Poland | 24% |
61% |
Serbia | 28% |
59% |
Greece | 28% |
58% |
Croatia | 29% |
58% |
Russia | 30% |
58% |
Belarus | 27% |
57% |
Bulgaria | 41% |
43% |
Lithuania | 43% |
42% |
Hungary | 41% |
41% |
Latvia | 38% |
40% |
Estonia | 58% |
26% |
Czech Republic | 65% |
21% |
(**) Identified with answers "don't know/refused" are not shown.
Abrahamic religions
Bahá'í Faith
The first newspaper reference to the religious movement began with coverage of the
Starting in the 1890s Europeans began to convert to the religion. In 1910 Bahá'u'lláh's son and appointed successor,
A 1925 list of "leading local Bahá'í Centres" of Europe listed organized communities of many countries – the largest being in Germany.[30] However the religion was soon banned in a couple of countries: in 1937 Heinrich Himmler disbanded the Bahá'í Faith's institutions in Germany because of its 'international and pacifist tendencies'[31] and in Russia in 1938 "monstrous accusations" against Bahá'ís and a Soviet government policy of oppression of religion resulted in Bahá'í communities in 38 cities across Soviet territories ceasing to exist.[32] However the religion recovered in both countries. The religion has generally spread such that in recent years the Association of Religion Data Archives estimated the Bahá'ís in European countries to number in hundreds to tens of thousands.[33]
Christianity
The majority of Europeans describe themselves as
Christianity is still the largest religion in
According to Scholars, in 2017, Europe's population was 77.8% Christian (up from 74.9% 1970),
Christian denominations
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- Germanic Europe (which includes Austria, Luxembourg, northern Flemish Belgium, southern and western Germany, parts of the Netherlands, parts of Switzerland, and Liechtenstein).
- Orthodox Christianity (the churches are in full communion, i.e. the national churches are united in theological concept and part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
- Russian Orthodox Church
- Serbian Orthodox Church
- Romanian Orthodox Church
- Church of Greece
- Bulgarian Orthodox Church
- Georgian Orthodox Church
- Finnish Orthodox Church
- Cypriot Orthodox Church
- Albanian Orthodox Church
- Polish Orthodox Church
- Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- Turkish Orthodox Church
- Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric
- Montenegrin Orthodox Church
- Oriental Orthodoxy
- Protestantism
- Lutheranism
- Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church
- Danish National Church
- Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
- United Protestant Church of France
- Protestant Church in Germany
- Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia
- Church of Norway
- Church of Sweden
- Anglicanism
- Calvinism
- Lutheranism
- Restorationism
- Other
- Baptist Union of Great Britain
- Baptist Union of Sweden
- Bruderhof Communities
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
There are numerous minor Protestant movements, including various Evangelical congregations.
Islam
According to the
Muslims make up 99% of the population in
A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2016 found that Muslims make up 4.9% of all of Europe's population.[79] According to a same study conversion does not add significantly to the growth of the Muslim population in Europe, with roughly 160,000 more people leaving Islam than converting into Islam between 2010 and 2016.[79]
Judaism
The Jews were
Deism
During the
Irreligion
The trend towards secularism during the 20th and 21st centuries has a number of reasons, depending on the individual country:
- laicist since the French Revolution. Today the country is 25%[86] to 32%[87] irreligious. The remaining population is made up evenly of both Christians and people who believe in a god or some form of spiritual life force, but are not involved in organized religion.[88]French society is still secular overall.
- Some parts of Eastern Europe were secularized as a matter of state doctrine under communist rule in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Albania was an officially (and constitutionally binding) atheist state from 1967 to 1991.[89] The countries where the most people reported no religious belief were France (33%), the Czech Republic (30%), Belgium (27%), Netherlands (27%), Estonia (26%), Germany (25%), Sweden (23%) and Luxembourg (22%).[90] The region of Eastern Germany, which was also under communist rule, is by far the least religious region in Europe.[91][92]Other post-communist countries, however, have seen the opposite effect, with religion being very important in countries such as Romania, Lithuania and Poland.
The trend towards secularism has been less pronounced in the traditionally
According to a
Atheism and agnosticism
During the late 20th and early 21st centuries, atheism and agnosticism have increased, with falling church attendance and membership in various European countries.[95] The 2010 Eurobarometer survey found that on total average, of the EU28 population, 51% "believe there is a God", 26% "believe there is some sort of spirit or life force", and 20% "don't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force".[2] Across the EU, belief was higher among women, increased with age, those with a strict upbringing, those with the lowest level of formal education and those leaning towards right-wing politics.[90]: 10–11 Results were varied widely between different countries.[2]
According to a survey measuring religious identification in the European Union in 2019 by Eurobarometer, 10% of EU citizens identify themselves as atheists.[18] As of May 2019[update], the top seven European countries with the most people who viewed themselves as atheists were Czech Republic (22%), France (21%), Sweden (16%), Estonia (15%), Slovenia (14%), Spain (12%) and Netherlands (11%).[18] 17% of EU citizens called themselves non-believers or agnostics and this percentage was the highest in Netherlands (41%), Czech Republic (34%), Sweden (34%), United Kingdom (28%), Estonia (23%), Germany (21%) and Spain (20%).[18]
Modern Paganism
Germanic
Heathenism or Esetroth (Icelandic: Ásatrú), and the organised form
In the
Ásatrúarfélagið (Esetroth Fellowship) was recognized as an official religion by the Icelandic government in 1973. For its first 20 years it was led by farmer and poet Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson. By 2003, it had 777 members,[98] and by 2014, it had 2,382 members, corresponding to 0.8% of Iceland's population.[99] In Iceland, Germanic religion has an impact larger than the number of its adherents.[100]
In Sweden, the
Roman
The
Druidry
The religious development of
Official religions
A number of countries in Europe have official religions, including Greece (Orthodox),[104] Liechtenstein,[105] Malta,[106] Monaco,[107] the Vatican City (Catholic);[108] Armenia (Apostolic Orthodoxy); Denmark,[109] Iceland[110][111] and the United Kingdom (England alone) (Anglican).[112] In Switzerland, some cantons are officially Catholic, others Reformed Protestant. Some Swiss villages even have their religion as well as the village name written on the signs at their entrances.
Indian religions
Buddhism
Buddhism is thinly spread throughout Europe, and the fastest growing religion in recent years[113][114] with about 3 million adherents.[115][116] In Kalmykia, Tibetan Buddhism is prevalent.[117]
Hinduism
Hinduism is mainly practised among Indian immigrants. It has been growing rapidly in recent years, notably in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Italy.[118] In 2010, there were an estimated 1.4 million Hindu adherents in Europe.[119]
Jainism
Jainism, small membership rolls, mainly among Indian immigrants in Belgium and the United Kingdom, as well as several converts from western and northern Europe.[120][121]
Sikhism
, have 5,000 or fewer Sikhs.Other religions
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Other religions represented in Europe include:
- Animism
- Confucianism
- Eckankar
- Ietsism
- Raëlism
- Beliefs of the Romani people
- Romuva
- Satanism
- Shinto
- Spiritualism
- Taoism
- Thelema
- Unitarian Universalism
- Yazidism
- Zoroastrianism
- Rastafari communities in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and elsewhere.
- , including
- West African Vodun and Haitian Vodou (Voodoo), mainly among West African and black Caribbean immigrants in the UK and France.
See also
- Buddhism by country
- Christianity in Europe
- Europeanism
- Hinduism by country
- Irreligion (no faith) by country
- Islam by country
- Judaism by country
- List of religious populations
- Major world religions
- Protestantism by country
- Post Christianity
- Religion in the European Union
- Roman Catholicism by country
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