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.

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.

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.

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 60 percent of the 65 to 85-year-olds believed in God in 2010, this was only the case for 42 percent of the respondents in 2022. Interestingly, the share of young people (16 to 29 years) believing in God increased in 2021 and 2022.

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.

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 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.

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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.

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 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.

According to a survey on religious belief from 2010 to 2019 in Sweden, people with a high educational level had a lower faith in God than those with a lower education. While 46 percent of the respondents with a high education believed in God in 2010, only 34 percent could say the same in 2019. In similar vein, the share of believers with a low educational level declined from 52 percent to 46 percent during that same period.

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.

In Sweden, a higher share of people regularly pray than go to religious services and ceremonies. In 2022, 14 percent prayed regularly, whereas only six percent went to religious ceremonies.

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.

66 percent of the Swedish respondents, to a survey conducted in 2018, perceived online material which promotes hatred or religious extremism as a very serious crime. Five percent of the Swedes found it as a minor crime and three percent of the respondents did not find it as being a crime at all.

** 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.

** percent of Swedes who responded to a survey, conducted in 2019, reported to have encountered material which promotes racial hatred or religious extremism online more than ***** times over the past three months that year. In contrast, approximately ** percent of the respondents had never encountered such content.