The share of the population in Denmark that is a member of the National Church declined over the past 10 years. In 2024, 4.25 million Danes were registered as members in the Danish National Church, meaning that 70 percent of the country's total population of six million people were members of the Church. 1.7 million people were not members of the Danish National Church that year. Every person who is baptized automatically becomes a member of the National Church, which in most cases happens through infant baptism. Since the Danish Reformation, the Danish National Church has been Evangelical Lutheran.

Christianity is, by far, the largest religion in Denmark with nearly 4.5 million members of the Danish People's Church or other Christian communities. Moreover, there are estimated to be around 300,000 Muslims in the country, but the exact number is not known. In general, estimating the exact number of people having a specific religious belief is difficult, and even for the members of the Danish People's Church, many do not actively participate in ceremonies.

This statistic shows the result of a survey conducted in 2017 on the level of knowledge about religion in Denmark, by religion. That year, the largest religious knowledge of Danish population (a share of 88 percent of respondents) had great or some knowledge about Christianity, whereas 12 percent had not much or no knowledge about Christianity. In contrast, only 33 percent of individuals said that they have a great or some knowledge about Judaism.

An overwhelming majority of people in Denmark with an origin from the Middle East and North Africa, including Turkey, were Muslims. Simultaneously, a large majority of the population with a Danish origin were members of the Danish People's Church, which is Lutheran-Protestant.

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This statistic shows the result of a survey on religious identification in Denmark in 2017, by type. The majority of the population, with a share of ** percent, was non-practicing Christians. The share with the lowest religious identification in Denmark had other religion than Christianity, reaching **** percent.

This statistic displays the estimated and actual Muslim population share in Denmark and Sweden in 2018. In Denmark, respondents on average guessed that ** out of every 100 people in Denmark were Muslims. In fact, *. percent of the Danish population was Muslim in 2018. Swedes estimated ** percent of every hundred people to be Muslim, but the actual number was * percent.

Government expenditure on religious and other community services increased since 2010. That year, public spending reached seven billion Danish kroner, a number that had increased to 8.8 billion by 2022.