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In 2007 the population grew at a much higher 1.1% rate, again mostly due to immigration. For 2008, the population grew 1.6%, a level not seen since the early 1960s. [15] Total fertility rate [16] 1.46 children born/woman (total) 1.33 children born/Swiss woman; 1.86 children born/non-Swiss woman
The proportion of Christians has declined significantly since 1980, when they constituted about 94% of the population; during the same timespan, unaffiliated Swiss residents have grown from about 4% to 31% of the population, and people professing non-Christian religions have grown from about 1% to 7.2% of the population. [4]
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
Christianity is the predominant religion according to national surveys of Swiss Federal Statistical Office [o] (about 67% of resident population in 2016–2018 [3] and 75% of Swiss citizens [254]), divided between the Catholic Church (35.8% of the population), the Swiss Reformed Church (23.8%), further Protestant churches (2.2%), Eastern ...
Geneva is the only non-German-speaking canton where the Muslim population (6.24%) is slightly above the average (5.40%). [7] Another remarkable demographic feature in comparison to other European countries is the relatively equal distribution throughout the country [ 8 ] (compare Islam in the United Kingdom ).
The U.N.’s previous population assessment, released in 2022, suggested that humanity could grow to 10.4 billion people by the late 2000s, but lower birth rates in some of the world’s largest ...
Romania, one of the most religious countries in Europe, witnessed a threefold increase in the number of atheists between 2002 and 2011, as revealed by the most recent national census. [16] Eurobarometer survey 2005 chart results
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s. ...