In 2024, ***** was the religion followed by the largest group of foreigners living in Italy, with almost ** percent of the share. ******************* were ** percent of the total immigrant population, ahead of ********* with ** percent. About *** percent of the foreign population in Italy did not have any religious affiliation.

According to data from 2020, more than a half of foreign inhabitants in Italy were Christians (52 percent). Muslims represented 33 percent of all foreign residents in Italy, while almost five percent were either atheist or agnostic.

Every year, the number of Italian believers attending religious services becomes lower and lower. In 2023, the number of people attending places of worship at least once per week dropped below ten million individuals for the first time since at least 2001, seven million worshipers less than in 2013. However, figures increased to 10.2 million in 2024 compared to 2023. In 2020, the most prayerful were the citizens aged over 75 years, whereas the lowest number of individuals attending religious services at least once a week was recorded in the age group between 18 and 19 years. Religious affiliation of Italians Although the dominant religion in Italy is Catholicism, Italian citizens also belong to other religious minorities. In 2020, the largest share of individuals not affiliated to the Roman Catholic Church were Muslims, followed by Jehovah’s Witnesses and Protestants. Reasons to leave religion When asked about the reason they left the religion, 64 percent of the Italian respondents stated that they disagreed with their religion’s position on social issues. Another 60 percent of the interviewees were unhappy about scandals involving religious institutions, whereas six percent left the religion because they married someone outside the faith.

In 2020, Islam had the largest share of adherents among religious minorities in Italy. Around 22 percent of worshippers not belonging to the Roman Catholics were Muslims. Other large religious minorities were Jehovah's Witnesses, Protestants, and Orthodoxes.

In 2023, Muslims were the largest religious minority among Italian citizens, with around 566,000 Italians following Islam. Moreover, around 445,000 Italian citizens were Orthodox Christians.

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In 2024, around *** million Muslims lived in Italy. More than a quarter were ******** citizens, at ******* people, ahead of ******* Albanians and ******* Bangladeshis. ***** is the first most common religion of foreigners nationwide. The second-largest religion among immigrants living in Italy is the Christian Orthodox one, considering the large Romanian community residing in the country.

Comprehensive dataset containing 79 verified Religious organization businesses in Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Comprehensive dataset containing 16 verified Religious destination businesses in Province of Latina, Italy with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

Census and electoral data. Visit https://dataone.org/datasets/sha256%3Afe470d8bb7934b4d8ec5e844505a8e90fcf963e4b1a476671c750cd159549cdd for complete metadata about this dataset.

Comprehensive dataset containing 27 verified Religious organization businesses in Province of Como, Italy with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

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Results of official censuses of the single countries.

Comprehensive dataset containing 13 verified Religious destination businesses in Province of Rimini, Italy with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

The statistic shows the share of Italian citizens belonging to Protestantism in Italy in 2020, by denomination. According to the data, the Pentecostal Church had the largest share of adherents among Protestants, with 65.4 percent of the worshippers.

Comprehensive dataset containing 2,151 verified Religious organization businesses in Italy with complete contact information, ratings, reviews, and location data.

This survey is a not up-to-date version. Please, use the updated version included in the EVS integrated data files. This national dataset is only available for replication purposes and analysis with additional country-specific variables (see ´Further Remarks´).

Two online overviews offer comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables.

The extended study description for the EVS 2008 provides country-specific information on the origin and outcomes of the national surveys The variable overview of the four EVS waves 1981 1990 1999/2000 and 2008 allows for identifying country specific deviations in the question wording within and across the EVS waves.

These overviews can be found at: Extended Study Description Variable Overview

Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of Europeans.

Topics: 1. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion; frequency of political discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of own health; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities, labour unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned with health or other groups; tolerance towards minorities (people with a criminal record, of a different race, left/right wing extremists, alcohol addicts, large families, emotionally unstable people, Muslims, immigrants, AIDS sufferers, drug addicts, homosexuals, Jews, gypsies and Christians - social distance); trust in people; estimation of people´s fair and helpful behaviour; internal or external control; satisfaction with life.

1. Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selected aspects of occupational work; employment status; general work satisfaction; freedom of decision-taking in the job; importance of work (work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitude towards following instructions at work without criticism (obedience work); give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men over women in jobs.

2. Religion: Individual or general clear guidelines for good and evil; religious denomination; current and former religious denomination; current frequency of church attendance and at the age of 12; importance of religious celebration at birth, marriage, and funeral; self-assessment of religiousness; churches give adequate answers to moral questions, problems of family life, spiritual needs and social problems of the country; belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, sin and re-incarnation; personal God versus spirit or life force; own way of connecting with the divine; interest in the sacred or the supernatural; attitude towards the existence of one true religion; importance of God in one´s life (10-point-scale); experience of comfort and strength from religion and belief; moments of prayer and meditation; frequency of prayers; belief in lucky charms or a talisman (10-point-scale); attitude towards the separation of church and state.

3. Family and marriage: most important criteria for a successful marriage (scale); attitude towards childcare (a child needs a home with father and mother, a woman has to have children to be fulfilled, marriage is an out-dated institution, woman as a single-parent); attitude towards marriage, children, and traditional family structure (scale); attitude towards traditional understanding of one´s role of man and woman in occupation and family (scale); attitude towards: respect and love for parents, parent´s responsibilities for their children and the responsibility of adult children for their parents when they are in need of long-term care; importance of educational goals; attitude towards abortion.

4. Politics and society: political interest; political participation; preference for individual freedom or social equality; self-assessment on a left-right continuum (10-point-scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision; free decision of job-taking of the unemployed or no permission to refuse a job; advantage or harmfulness of competition; liberty of firms or governmental control; equal incomes or incentives for indivi...

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

In Italy, more than ** percent of all the prisoners in 2016 were Catholics. Moreover, **** percent of inmates declared themselves as non-believers or did not declare their religious affiliation. Only **** percent of the prisoners in Italy belong to Jehovah's witnesses.

Italy E-Commerce Transactions: AOV: Community & Society: Faith & Beliefs data was reported at 121.420 USD in 22 Jun 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 146.131 USD for 13 Feb 2024. Italy E-Commerce Transactions: AOV: Community & Society: Faith & Beliefs data is updated daily, averaging 125.229 USD from Dec 2018 (Median) to 22 Jun 2024, with 1247 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 734.947 USD in 22 Mar 2019 and a record low of 8.931 USD in 21 Oct 2019. Italy E-Commerce Transactions: AOV: Community & Society: Faith & Beliefs data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Grips Intelligence Inc.. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Italy – Table IT.GI.EC: E-Commerce Transactions: by Category.