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, *** million of these define themselves as Christians, with ******* of these being very religious.

The share of Swedes who believe in God declined continuously since 2010. While ** percent of the respondents believed in God in 2010, the share had dropped by ** percentage points in 2024, amounting to ** percent.

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.

This statistic shows the result of a survey on religious identification in Sweden in 2017, by type. That year, the largest group of Swedish population (a share of 43 percent) participating in this survey identified themselves as non-practicing Christians. Only nine percent of respondents was practicing Christian, defined by the source as someone who goes to church at least monthly.

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 majority of the respondents see themselves as Christian. Moreover, around ********* did not have any religious beliefs.

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

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.

Christianity was the largest religion in a high number of the countries included in the survey. Of the countries, Peru, South Africa, and Poland had the highest share of Christians at around 75 percent. Moreover, around 90 percent in India and Thailand stated that they believed in another religion, with Hinduism and Buddhism being the major religion in the two countries respectively. Sweden and South Korea were the only two countries where 50 percent or more of the respondents stated that they did not have any religious beliefs.

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.

Public expenditure of culture, recreation, and religion in Sweden increased from 2012 to 2021, before dropping in 2022. That year, the Swedish government spent short of 20 billion Swedish kronor on these activities.

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.

In 2022, there were ******* members of Islamic communities under the umbrella of the Islamic Cooperation Council in Sweden. Additionally, there were over ******* members of Orthodox and Eastern Churches. More than half of the Swedish population were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden in 2022.

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 Sweden, a higher share of people regularly pray than go to religious services and ceremonies. In 2022, ** percent prayed regularly, whereas only *** percent went to religious ceremonies.

In 2020 and 2021, a record low number of people decided to get married in the Church of Sweden. This must be seen in relation with the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the number of marriages in the Church of Sweden have been falling since 2010. In 2024, the number of marriages was a total of 11,561

This statistic shows the result of a survey conducted in 2017 on people in favor of legal abortion in Sweden, by religious identification. That year, the largest share of Swedish population was religiously unaffiliated, with a share of 98 percent of respondents in favor of abortion. Compared with the church-attending Christians reaching 79 percent of individuals, it was 19 percentage points higher.

Religious adherence varies widely between countries and regions across the globe. While in some countries, such as Bangladesh (majority-Muslim), Thailand (majority-Buddhist), and Nigeria (over 50 percent Muslim and 45 percent Christian), almost all people indicate that religion is important in their daily lives, in others such as Japan, Sweden, and Estonia, over three quarters of people do not believe that religion is important to them. Among countries with higher levels of religious adherence, there are some interesting cases. Predominantly Islamic countries, such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia, tend to show high levels of religious adherence. Italy, the historical center of the Catholic Church, records much higher levels of religiosity than other Western European countries, such as France, Germany, or the UK. The United States has almost double the number of people saying they believe religion is important in their daily life than not important. While religious adherence has declined over the past half century in the U.S., waves of immigration from predominantly Catholic countries, as well as the cultural impact of Evangelical Protestantism in some areas has meant that it is still one of the most religious Western countries. Israel, in spite of being an officially Jewish state, records roughly half of respondents being religious. Another notable trend is the tendency of some post-communist countries to show lower levels of religiosity, likely a result of the policy of state atheism under communism - Russia, Belarus, and Estonia all come towards the least religious end of the list for this reason, although Poland, or former-Soviet states in the Caucuses and Central Asia show much higher levels of religious adherence.

** percent of respondents in India and Thailand agreed with the statement that religious practices are an important part of their countries' citizens moral life. By contrast, only ** percent of respondents in Japan and ** percent in Hungary and Sweden did the same.

This statistic shows the result of a survey conducted in 2017 on share of people believing in God in Sweden. That year, most of Swedes, with a share of ** percent of respondents, did not believe in God, whereas the share of Swedish people who believed with absolute certainty in God's existence, reached ** percent of respondents.