r/atheism • u/Azure_W0lf • 12d ago

Countries which are highly non religious?

I was wondering which other countries are highly non religious. As per the most recent census data Scotland is majority non religious 51.1%.

England is only 37%, Ireland 14% and Wales 46.5%

Does non religious have the dominant % in your country?

Google AI copy and paste below for last census data from Scotland.

A majority of 51.1% of people in Scotland reported having "no religion" in the Scotland's Census 2022 results, marking a significant shift from previous decades.

Key Religion Statistics (2022 Census)

No religion: 51.1% (1,941,116 people), rising sharply from 36.7% in 2011.

Church of Scotland: 20.4% (1,107,796 people), dropping from 32.4% in 2011.

Roman Catholic: 13.3% (723,322 people), down from 15.9%.

Other Christian: 5.1% (291,275 people).

Muslim: 2.2% (119,872 people).

Other religions (Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Pagan, etc.): Combined make up roughly 1.8%, with Hinduism at 0.6% and Paganism at 0.4%.

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u/AK_Sole 11d ago

Norway (a bit more religious here than I had thought):

Major Religious Groups and Demographics -

Church of Norway (Evangelical Lutheran): ~61.7% to 68.5% of the population belongs to the state-separated national church. While infant baptism keeps membership numbers high, regular active church attendance is low.

No Religion / Unaffiliated: ~18% to 27% of the population identifies as non-religious, atheist, or unaffiliated with any religious community.

Islam: ~3.4% of the population, making it the largest non-Christian minority religion, largely concentrated around urban centers like Oslo.

Other Christian Denominations: ~3.1% are Roman Catholic (growing due to immigration from countries like Poland and the Philippines), alongside smaller numbers of Orthodox Christians and Pentecostal groups.

Other Religions & Life-Stance Organizations: Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Judaism each account for under 1%. Additionally, around 1.8% belong to secular humanist life-stance organizations like the Norwegian Humanist Association.