According to a survey conducted in April 2023 in France, more than 60 percent of responding non-Practicing Catholics stated that they did believe in God, whereas 80 percent of respondents of a religion other than Catholicism declared that did believe in God's existence. Finally, 94 percent of Practicing Catholics respondents were believers.
This graphic shows the forecasted number of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, religiously unaffiliated people, believers in folk religions and in other religions in France in 2022. With almost 36 million people identifying themselves as Christians, Christianity was the most represented religion in France. Furthermore, about 24.2 million people considered themselves as religiously unaffiliated.
This statistic shows the feeling of belonging to a specific religion among people in France in a survey from 2022. It displays that half of respondents stated that they felt linked to Christianism, when around 40 percent of them declared they felt bound to no religion. .
The graph shows the distribution of young people aged from 18 to 30 years old according to their religious affiliation in France in 2023. The survey displays that 52 percent of the respondents declared no religion. Moreover, 22 percent of them declared themselves as Christians. The second religion among French young adults was Islam with 12 percent of the respondents who stated Islam as their religion.
This statistic shows the distribution of individuals in France in 2023, according to their relationship to religion. It appears that 37 percent of respondents declared themselves as believers in one of the monotheistic religions, while 45 percent stated they were non-believers.
The statistic shows the distribution of the French population in 1994 and in 2014, according religious beliefs and practices. It appears that, over these twenty years, the share of respondents who considered themselves to believers decreased from 45 percent in 1994 to 36 percent in 2014. French people considering they were neither religious, nor believer nor attached to a community without being a believer were 32 percent in 1994 and 39 percent in 2014.
This statistic illustrates the religious affiliation of the French population in France in February and March 2018. That year, around 41 percent of the interviewed population declared themselves to be Catholic. The majority of the sample considered themselves to be without religion.
This statistic illustrates the religious affiliation of young people aged 18 to 30 years in France in March 2018, by gender. According to the survey, almost half of women of this age reported having no religious affiliation, compared to 40 percent of men. The second most represented category was the catholic religion, fairly equally distributed amon men and women with each 41 and 43 percent, respectively.
According to a survey conducted in 2019-2020, 55 percent of France's inhabitants who were also immigrants declared themselves to be Muslims. On the other hand, a large majority of French inhabitants with no migrant background declared themselves to be Catholics, indeed there were 77 percent of them who felt close to the Christian religion.
According to a survey conducted in France in April 2023, 44 percent of the respondents affirmed they believed in God, and there were 56 percent of the surveyed who defined themselves as non- believers. Since 1947, French people's faith in God kept slightly decreasing, indeed in that year there were 66 percent of respondents affirming they believed in God, and there were only 55 percent in 2004.
In 2021, more than half of the anti-religious acts identified by the Ministry of the Interior concerned the Christian community. According to the source, these were mainly attacks on religious property. The second most affected community was the Jewish community in France (35.5 percent of anti-religious acts).
The graph shows the opinion of young adults towards God's existence in France in 2018, according to their religious affiliation. It appears that 38 percent of the French young adults with no religious affiliation considered God's existence as excluded, whereas five percent of respondents in each of the other categories stated so. 54 percent of young adults identifying with a religion other than Christianity declared the existence of God as certain, while 23 percent of young French defining themselves as Christians shared this opinion.
This statistic represents the religious affiliation of young people aged 18 to 30 in France in March 2018, by religious observance. More than two thirds of the young practitioners were Catholic. Among the non-practicing young French people, 78 percent were of catholic religion.
In 2021, 70 percent of French people of the Muslim faith were supportive of the general principle of public funding of religious services, compared to 20 percent of those without religious affiliation. Support for this principle was substantially higher among residents of the Alsace-Moselle region (except for Muslims), where the concordat regime, in force between 1802 and 1905 in France, is still in effect.
This statistic shows the frequency of religious practices among surveyed in France in 2020. It displays that almost the majority of French respondents said they never had any religious practices. On the other hand, six percent of respondents declared that they practiced their religion everyday or almost everyday.
According to a survey conducted in 2024, a large majority of the French respondents believed France was a country of Catholic culture and tradition. Indeed, there were 84 percent of those surveyed who thought that way.
In 2020, when surveyed on the eve of the Assumption, two thirds of French practicing Catholics (66 percent) reported owning a Bible, which was two points more than in 1988. On the other hand, there has been a significant decrease in the number of French believers who have other religious objects in their homes, such as crucifixes (51 percent, -34 points), rosaries (62 percent, -25 points), statues of the Virgin Mary (66 percent, -14 points) or holy water (31 percent, -20 points).
According to a survey conducted in 2023, only 12 percent of Catholics in France went to church or temple weekly. On the other hand, one Protestant out of four went to church or temple weekly. Catholics tended to go more often but mostly when gathering for a special event or for major religious holidays, like Christmas.
This statistic displays the breakdown the population of Jewish faith or of Jewish origin living in France in 2015 ,by level of religious observance. Thus, more than 40 percent of French Jews were not observant of their religion at all.
According to a survey conducted in March 2022 in France, 87 percent of regular practicing Catholics had a Bible in their homes. They were followed by Protestants with 79 percent of them having a Bible at home. People who declared themselves without religion were also those most likely not to own the religious book, with only 13 percent of them owning a copy of the Bible.
According to a survey conducted in April 2023 in France, more than 60 percent of responding non-Practicing Catholics stated that they did believe in God, whereas 80 percent of respondents of a religion other than Catholicism declared that did believe in God's existence. Finally, 94 percent of Practicing Catholics respondents were believers.