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.

In 2022, there were ******* members of Islamic communities under the umbrella of the Islamic Cooperation Council in Sweden. The number of Muslims in Sweden increased steadily since 2014, when there were estimated to be around ******* Muslims in the country. The exact number of believing Muslims in Sweden is difficult to estimate, particularly as there may be people following Islam who are not a member of an Islamic community.

Sweden: Muslims as percent of the total population: The latest value from is percent, unavailable from percent in . In comparison, the world average is 0.0 percent, based on data from countries. Historically, the average for Sweden from to is percent. The minimum value, percent, was reached in while the maximum of percent was recorded in .

This statistic displays the estimated and forecasted Muslim population share in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 2020. In Denmark, respondents on average guessed that ** out of every 100 people in Denmark would be Muslims in 2020. In fact, only *** percent of the Danish population will be Muslim in 2020.

This statistic shows the result of a survey conducted in 2017 on Swedes agreeing or disagreeing to Muslims having an agenda to impose their religious law on everyone in their country. That year, the largest opinion, with a share of 57 percent of respondents, completely disagreed that Muslims wanted to impose their religious law, whereas 11 percent of Swedish people completely agreed that Muslims agenda was to impose their own religious law.

This statistic shows the result of a survey conducted in 2017 on the level of knowledge about religion in Sweden. That year, the largest religious knowledge of Swedish population (a share of 86 percent of respondents) had great or some knowledge about Christianity, whereas 14 percent had not much or no knowledge about Christianity. In contrast, only 40 percent of individuals said that they have a great or some knowledge about Judaism.

In Sweden, a large majority of the population define themselves as Christians. Based on a representative survey reflecting 7.9 million of the Swedish population, 5.1 million of these define themselves as Christians, with 240,000 of these being very religious.

This statistic shows the result of a survey conducted in 2017 on people agreeing that Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Sweden's culture and values. That year, the largest agreement of the Swedish population was church-attending Christians, with a share of 43 percent of respondents. Compared with the religiously unaffiliated reaching 33 percent of individuals it was ten percentage points higher.

Over the past decade, the share of the Swedish population who was a member of the Swedish Church decreased steadily from 70 percent in 2010 to 51 percent in 2024. This underlines the trend that religion is playing a smaller part in people's lives in Sweden. The Church of Sweden is the largest Christian church in Sweden and it was the state church between 1536 and 2000.

In Sweden, eight percent of the respondents stated that they had been discriminated against at work based on their religion, and six percent had experienced religious discrimination when applying for a job.

Suède: Shia Muslims as percent of the total population: Pour cet indicateur, The Cline Center for Democracy fournit des données pour la Suède de à . La valeur moyenne pour Suède pendant cette période était de pour cent avec un minimum de pour cent en et un maximum de pour cent en .

This statistic presents the age distribution of Muslims in Europe compared with that of non-Muslims as of 2016. As this statistic illustrates, ** percent of Muslims are aged **** compared with only ** percent of non-Muslims in this age cohort. Only *** percent of Muslims in Europe are over **, contrasted with ** percent of non-Muslims.

In September 1981 a new Swedish translation of the New Testament was published. The main purpose of this survey is to show the possession and use of the Bible among the Swedish population. Respondents were asked about their interest in issues concerning religion and outlook of life, if they believe in God and about their relation toward the Christian faith, how often they attend church and how often they pray. The major part of the questions addressed people who used to read the Bible. They were asked how and why they read the Bible and which Bible translation they use. Furthermore they were asked about their opinion on the new translation of the New Testament.

This statistic shows the result of a survey conducted in 2017 on people in favor of same-sex marriage in Sweden in 2017, by religious identification. That year, the largest share of Swedish population was religiously unaffiliated, with a share of 94 percent of respondents in favor of same-gender marriage. Compared with the church-attending Christians reaching 65 percent of individuals it was 29 percentage points higher.

This statistic shows the result of a survey conducted in 2017 on opinions on restrictions on the religious clothing of Muslim women in Sweden. That year, the largest opinion, with a share of ** percent of Swedish respondents, support free religious clothing of Muslim women.

According to a survey on religious belief, younger generations of Swedes believed less in God than older generations of Swedes. During the time under consideration, the religious believes of the respondents fluctuated but declined overall. While ** percent of the ** to 85-year-olds believed in God in 2010, this was only the case for ** percent of the respondents in 2022. Interestingly, the share of young people (16 to 29 years) believing in God increased in 2021 and 2022.

In 2020, Indonesia recorded the largest population of Muslims worldwide, with around 239 million. This was followed with around 226.88 million Muslims in Pakistan and 213 million Muslims in India.

This statistic shows the estimated number of Muslims living in different European countries as of 2016. Approximately **** million Muslims were estimated to live in France, the most of any country listed. Germany and the United Kingdom also have large muslim populations with **** million and **** million respectively.

This statistic shows the result of a survey conducted in 2017 on religious practice in Sweden. That year, most of Swedes, with a share of 22 percent of respondents, practiced religion by giving money to their religious organization. The second largest share of Swedish people, reaching ten percent of respondents, practiced religion by wearing or carrying religious symbols.

People from Somalia made up the largest group of foreign-born citizens from Africa living in Sweden in 2022, with nearly 70,000 people. Eritreans and Ethiopians made up the second and third largest group, respectively, meaning that a high number of the foreign-born born population from African countries come from the Horn of Africa. This is a region characterized by famines, terrorism, and authoritarian rule over the past decades, resulting in a high number of refugees.