Religion in the United Kingdom

Summary

Christianity is the largest religion in the United Kingdom, though it no longer represents a majority of the population. The United Kingdom was historically a Christian-majority country, but Christianity lost its majority status between 2010 and 2020. The 2021 Census for England and Wales showed that Christianity accounts for 46.2%, followed by the non-religious (37.2%), Islam (6.5%), Hinduism (1.7%), Sikhism (0.9%), Buddhism (0.5%), Judaism (0.5%), and others (0.6%). Among Christians, Anglicanism is the most common denomination, with 53% of Christian believers in the UK identifying with it as of 2023, followed by Catholicism, Presbyterianism, Methodism, Unitarianism, and Baptists. Results for the 2022 census in Scotland indicated that the majority (51%) had no religion, while 38.8% of the Scottish population identified as Christian. In Northern Ireland, Christianity is the largest religion (79.7%) followed by non-religious (17.4%), other religions (1.3%), and not stated (1.5%), as of 2021.