Popolazione europea religiosamente non affiliata per paese
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Popolazione europea religiosamente non affiliata per paese
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Ah yes, the church loves to flaunt around how 75% of this nation are Christians even though its around 25% that regularly attend masses at church.
funny thing is that in Poland Roman Catholic church reports much much lower numbers
It’s important to not that many “Christians” in Norway only are that on paper, because they were born into what was then the “state church”. A majority is in general agnostic, but will maybe go to church to get married, during Christmas and so on. Regular church attendence is very low.
Edit: Would like to add that this obviously applies to other countries as well. As many comments are pointing out too 🙂
Don’t trust the danish numbers. There’s a tradition of baptism which makes the infant a member of the state church and then the church claims that those numbers proves “affiliation”.
What a horrid color scale
Interesting colors. Red is mid, Yellow is very low and teal is the other extreme?
I expected Estonia and France to be higher. Czechia is in league of its own.
In Finland it’s actually around 35%.Â
In Sweden everyone born before year 2002 automatically became members of the church if your parents where already memebers.. I’d say no less then 80% of Sweden are atheists/agnostics. I’m still a member of the church simply because it’s a hassle to leave and membership fee is baked into your taxes.
I’m registered as Christian because I did communion and am baptised… but practically I am very much an Atheist… these statistics mean nothing.
Equally interesting, or possibly even more interesting would be the same map but breaking it down by demographic in each country. I’m a zoomer and I don’t think a single person I know goes to church regularly.
Information is old and inaccurate, it is published in 2025, but last census in Lithuania to have religion related questions were in 2011.
I just want to note how difficult the catholic church makes apostasy.
Ireland’s numbers are a mess because people still put catholic in the census as a synonym for “not protestant” rather than religion. They’re changing it in the next census to have a proper “No religion, but culturally Irish”, which should bring us into balance with our peers.
The last polls in 2020 were 46% non religious, and the eurobarometer is sitting around 30%.
Why UK with 40.2 % is “very high”? Where is the pivot?
If Russia has only 20% non religious people then why is church attendence only 10% ?
I’m from germany and I know like… three people who I think are religious. But not sure. One of them, a boy I went to primary school with, talked one day about his baptism, and I genuinely thought for years it was some cult ritual, on the same level as drinking goat blood in a pentagram or whatever. I thought he needed help to get out.
fyi, it says im muslim in my identity card but im not. its too hard to change it and legal process is so slow and this is easy way to got framed by government lol.
there are millions like this.
The huge difference between Czech and Slovakia is interesting, as they used to be one nation.
I’m a gen z Pole and none of my friends are religious and meeting sb my age who is, is rare. It’s gonna be a tiny fraction of that number in a few decades
Scandinavian countries like the church but they don’t really like religion.
r/dataisugly
Figures are about 20 years out of date
The numbers are complete bull. I have no idea where you get these numbers from but they seem cometely random. Some places it’s insane how wrong are depicted.
I’m really wondering how they define “religiously unaffiliated”. Because as a Swede who regularly visits Britain, I would definetely say that I see a lot more actively religious people there then in Sweden.
In romania, the church is actively pushing for introducing mandatory church visits and attending sermon bullshit for children in school.
We are literally going back to the dark ages.
#Important Context on Turkey:
We are automatically given the religious status of muslim in our ID by default and have to opt out of it, which many dont bother.
New ID cards don’t show your religion on them, so people may not even be aware that they are listed as such until they look it up by requesting a personal information document digitally
Totally inaccurate map. There is absolutely no chance Germany and France are more irreligious than Finland, Sweden and Norway.
The Nordics are incredibly irreligious societies.
You’re saying Spain is less religious than the Nordics? Lmao holy fuck do some traveling.
Go, Czechs!
It seems your legendary beer has a way of bringing people to their senses.
Vatican: no data
What defines religious affiliation? This is incorrect and the think tank that made this did not exactly lighten up on the bias.
According to Statistics Estonia (https://andmed.stat.ee/), the 2021 census in Estonia marked 58.6% as non-religious. So, unless we somehow had a jump of 15% in a year (I can’t see that happening in statistics naturally) these statistics are pretty bad quality.
“Published June 2025”, right… and why does this think tank limit itself to 2020 for its cutoff on data? This makes the relevance of the data pretty bad, considering it doesn’t give you any up to date statistics. What are we to infer and learn from these stats if not “how religious are people right now over there?”
This isn’t even taking into consideration what religious affiliation even means as I said before. According to Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, which according to Ilta-sanomat did an extensive survey (https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000010799805.html) 40% only believe in a god in general. Which… makes 60% nonbelievers of God. Goes… pretty badly against the statistics of 25%. There’s no way you’re convincing me, a citizen of this state, that the rest of that 35% is religiously affiliated with a religion with no god.
So, the stats are bad quality/inaccurate and they are way too old. I ask again; what purpose does this have (what did the think tank want to tell us, even if it’s a lie?) and why share this?
What is the definition of religious affiliation? Claiming to be affiliated or actually practicing a religion? Because for Russian core regions, 80% claim to be orthodox, but only 20% actually practice it. (Not exact figures, just my general estimation).
Might be the worst colour scale I’ve ever seen. Would have made a bit of sense if they put green in “very low”, removed the light blue in “very high” and bumped all of the others up by 1 tier.
Religious on paper should have been the title. The actual numbers are much lower
You have no idea how nice it is living in the Czech Republic.
r/PortugalCykaBlyat
In a statistics course at university they taught us to not use color in infographics unless the color corresponds to the data in some meaningful way. This graphic is a good example for why that rule is useful…
Studying abroad in Czechia really helped me move on from the way I was raised.
Yes! Still #1!!!
Based Czechia 💅
25% is “High”!? This world is fucked.
This is not accurate at all. I think it goes for most countries, but in Denmark there’s a lot of Christian “members”, but only few of them actually gives a shit about the church. We’re more “culture Christian”. We celebrate some of the holidays, not really for religious reasons, but because it’s just pure tradition.
Most do not really believe in any religion.
It’s purely “Christian on paper”, not reality.
LMAO at Belarus. 80% of the people there have no idea where the nearest church is. These stats are funny.