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 ** million people identifying themselves as Christians, Christianity was the most represented religion in France. Furthermore, about **** million people considered themselves 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.

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.

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.

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.

Prepared by ICPSR under a project to automate major portions of the Statistique Generale de la France, this is a collection of demographic, social, education, economic, population, and vital statistics data for France, 1833-1925. This conversion project is a continuation of one conducted in 1972, for which a similar data collection was created, SOCIAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, AND EDUCATIONAL DATA FOR FRANCE, 1801-1897 (ICPSR 0048). The project to collect and prepare these data was sponsored by two French and two American groups: ICPSR and the Center for Western European Studies at the University of Michigan, and the Fourth and Sixth Sections of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Conseil National de la Recherches Scientifique in France. Both collections include data recorded at the departement, arrondissement, chef-lieu, and ville level. In this collection, materials from the vital statistics series were prepared for selected years rather than for each year in the period from 1900-1925. The years that were chosen clustered around the quinquennial censuses and also included (because of the violent demographic dislocations produced by World War I) each year in the 1914-1919 period. In addition, some vital statistics for the nineteenth century (1836-1850, 1880, and 1892) obtained from fugitive published volumes that could not be located during the course of the 1972 project were prepared. The 136 datasets in this collection contain: (1) French population, economic, and social data obtained from the quenquennial censuses of 1901, 1906, 1911, and 1921, that detail the composition of the population by categories of age, sex, nativity, marital status, religion, place of residence, and occupation, (2) industrial census data for the years 1861-1896, (3) data on primary education in France for 1833, 1901, and 1906, as well as data on secondary and higher education in France for the years 1836-1850, 1880, and 1892, and (4) data from a separate series of annual vital statistics (Mouvement de la Population) that cover the years 1836-1850, 1892, and 1900-1925, citing births, deaths, and marriages in the nation.

France: Non religious people as percent of the 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 France from to is percent. The minimum value, percent, was reached in while the maximum of percent was recorded in .

During the Holocaust, approximately six million Jews were killed. In France, the Jewish population had decreased by ******* individuals between 1939 and 1945. It then increased between the end of World War II and the 1970s, reaching ******* individuals in 1970. However, according to the source, the number of Jews in France has declined by more than 15 percent between that period and 2020, and is now estimated to be *******.

Ceci est une représentation graphique du nombre de personnes déclarant être croyant en France, selon la religion, en 2020 et en 2030. Avec près de 38 millions de personnes se considérant comme chrétiens, le christianisme était la religion la plus représentée en France en 2020 et devrait, malgré une légère baisse, le rester en 2030 d'après les estimations. Par ailleurs, environ 20,8 millions de personnes ne s'affiliaient à aucune religion en 2020. Ce nombre devrait monter à plus de 24 millions en 2030. Il est également estimé que le nombre de musulmans devrait légèrement augmenter en France entre 2020 et 2030.

This statistic represents the distribution of people of Jewish religion or Jewish origin living in France in 2015, by age group. Thus, more than half of the practicing Jews in France were under 35 years of age.

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.

The present study is a part of the project HIWED (Historical Indicators of the Western European Democracies; Project leader: Wolfgang Zapf and Peter Flora), funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung. The HIWED main product is a comprehensive data manual on political, social and economic developments in Western Europe for the period between 1815 and 1975.

Peter Flora’s study on the development of religious affiliation (´religious homogeneity or heterogeneity´) in selected Western European countries in a historical perspective is based on statistics from population censuses.The data tables are from the second section (´Cultural Heterogeneity´) of the first issue of the above-mentioned data manual. The United Kingdom has not taken into account in the analysis of the development perspective; there were only one census (1851) with information on the number of meetings in churches and the number of church-goers to a certain date. No systematic information is also available about the Protestant minorities in France, Belgium and Italy.

Data Tables in histat:

Religious affiliation, differentiation of the data tables by countries: A – Tabellen: Deutschland (Germany); B – Tabellen: Skandinavische Länder (Nordic States); C – Tabellen: Niederlande (The Netherlands); D – Tabellen: Schweiz (Switzerland); E – Tabellen: Irland (Italy); F – Tabellen: Österreich (Austria).

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.

This statistic shows the estimate of the French on the proportion of Muslims living in France in 2018. It reveals that French people thought that there were 28 percent of the French population that was Muslim, while the real proportion of the Muslim population in France amounted to nine percent.

This statistic shows the distribution of individuals in France in 2023, according to their relationship to religion. It appears that ** percent of respondents declared themselves as believers in one of the monotheistic religions, while ** percent stated they were non-believers.

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, *** percent of respondents declared that they practiced their religion everyday or almost everyday.

This study includes data on regional level for nine Western European countries: election returns, occupation categories, religion, population.

Data from France.

In France, legislative measures aimed at guaranteeing secularism are almost unanimously supported by teachers. In fact, the 2004 law prohibiting the wearing of religious symbols or clothing that expresses religious affiliation in public schools and colleges generates a broader consensus among teachers (92 percent) than among the French population as a whole (85 percent). The legislation that has the highest rate of support, both among teachers and the population, is the law of 1905, which guarantees the free exercise of religion and imposes the principle that the State neither recognizes nor subsidizes any religion. Generally speaking, the French are rather unfavorable to the principle of public funding of religions.

According to a survey conducted in April 2023 in France, the younger generation was more likely to be a non-believer when older generations had more faith in God. Indeed, only 36 percent of the 18-24-year-old French respondents affirmed they believed in God, while 50 percent of the 65 and older age group declared themselves as believers.

According to a survey conducted in 2023, only ** percent of Catholics in France went to church weekly. On the other hand, one Protestant out of four went to the temple weekly. Catholics tended to go more often, but mostly when gathering for a special event or major religious holidays, like Christmas.