Decline in Christian affiliation The number of people affiliated with Christianity in Australia decreased from 12.2 million (52.1%) in 2016 to 11.1 million (43.9%) in 2021.
While Christianity is currently the predominant religion in Latin America, Europe, Canada and the United States, the religion is declining in many of these areas, including Western Europe, some countries of North America (including the United States), and some countries in Oceania.
Forty-four per cent of Australians identify as Christian, down from 61 per cent a decade ago. The share of people ticking the “no religion” box grew from 22 per cent in 2011 to 39 per cent in 2021. The number of people in Australia who identify as Hindu surged by 55 per cent over the past five years.
The U.S.'s Christian majority has been shrinking for decades. A Pew Research Center study shows that as of 2020, about 64% of Americans identify as Christian. Fifty years ago, that number was 90%.
Along with the rest of the Western world, Australia has been affected by the widespread decline of religiosity in favour of more progressive secular values as that have lowered the number of professing Christians and a diversifying immigration intakes that have lowered the overall percentage that Christians comprise in ...
Hinduism is the fastest growing religion in Australia mostly through immigration. Hinduism is also one of the most youthful religions in Australia, with 34% and 66% of Hindus being under the age of 14 and 34 respectively. Hindu Temple in Melbourne.
Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Malaysia are said to have the fastest-growing Christian communities and the majority of the new believers are “upwardly mobile, urban, middle-class Chinese”.
For all of these reasons – psychological, neurological, historical, cultural and logistical – experts guess that religion will probably never go away. Religion, whether it's maintained through fear or love, is highly successful at perpetuating itself. If not, it would no longer be with us.
Seventy-three percent said church or pastor-related reasons led them to leave. Of those, 32 percent said church members seemed judgmental or hypocritical and 29 percent said they did not feel connected to others who attended. Seventy percent named religious, ethical or political beliefs for dropping out.
In 2011, Australian census data reported almost five and-a-half million Catholics, 25.3 per cent of the total population. By 2021, that number had gone down to just 20 per cent.
Christianity in the U.S. is quickly shrinking and may no longer be the majority religion within just a few decades, research finds. Christianity has remained at the forefront of the nation's political and social conversations for centuries — but new research shows that could be changing.
“There are growing numbers of atheists/agnostics in countries across the world,” said Dr Lanman. “Our recently completed 'Understanding Unbelief' programme looked beyond the stereotypes and helped to document some of the world's rich diversity in atheism and agnosticism.
A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.
As a result, according to the Pew Research projections, by 2050 there will be near parity between Muslims (2.8 billion, or 30% of the population) and Christians (2.9 billion, or 31%), possibly for the first time in history.
As societies develop from agrarian to industrial to knowledge-based, growing existential security tends to reduce the importance of religion in people's lives, and people become less obedient to traditional religious leaders and institutions.
Although approximately 20,000 Muslims convert to Christianity annually, ...
Christianity is the most common religion in Australia, with over 40 per cent (43.9 per cent) identifying as Christian.
Hinduism is Australia's fastest-growing religion. In the 2021 census, more than 684 thousand people identified as Hindu - a 55 per cent increase. The result is due to the arrival of a greater number of migrants from India and Nepal. Christianity remains the most common religion in Australia.
In some communities, religion might not be visible, but it is very much there. Only 30 per cent of Australians counted in the 2016 census identified as having no religion. That number had increased from 2011, but more than 60 per cent of Australians still identified with an organised religion.
Almost 40 per cent of the Australian population reported having "no religion", the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) says.