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The Federal Statistical Office reported the religious demographics as of 2023 as follows (based on the resident population age 15 years and older): 56% Christian (including 30.7% Roman Catholic, 19.5% Reformed, 5.8% other), 35.6% unaffiliated, 6% Muslim, 0.2% Jewish, 1.3% other religions. (100%: 6,981,381, registered resident population age 15 ...
As a consequence, Islam grew to become today the second largest religion in the country after Christianity. [8] At the same time, identification with, practice of Christianity, and membership in the traditional Christian churches, began to decline, first in the urban centres of Zürich, Basel and Geneva, and then also in the rural countrysides. [8]
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 ).
Reliable data on religious demography is difficult to obtain because an official nationwide census has not been conducted in decades. U.S. government estimates indicate a population of approximately 30.4 million, with Sunni Muslims comprising 80% of the population, Shia Muslims making up about 19%, and other religious groups comprising less than 1%.
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
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.