According to a survey conducted in Spain in September 2024, **** percent of respondents stated they considered themselves lapsed ********. The second-largest denomination was practicing *********, with nearly ** percent of respondents.

Catholicism was the main religion in Spain as of 2022, with a total of **** million adherents. Islam followed second, with *** followers. Catalonia was the autonomous community with the largest number of Muslims in Spain.

Although traditionally a Catholic country, Spain saw a decline in the number of believers over the past years. Compared to 2011, when the share of believers accounted for slightly over 70 percent of the Spanish population, the Catholic community lost approximately 15 percentage points of their faithful by June 2025 with a share of 56.1 percent of the surveyed population. Believers of a religion other than Catholicism accounted for approximately 3.6 percent of the Spanish population in 2025 according to the most recent data. A Catholic majority, a practicing minority Going to mass is no longer a thing in Spain, or so it would seem when looking at the latest statistics about the matter: over 47 percent of those who consider themselves Catholics almost never attend any religious service in June 2025. The not so Catholic Spain Around 37 percent of the surveyed population stated to be either non-believers or full atheists in 2025. Non-believers or people that do not have a religious faith fluctuated over the past years with the latest figures showing a 21 percent of people that categorize themselves as so. The share of Spanish atheists is on the rise according to the most recent surveys, taking up 13.3 percent of respondents in June 2025.

Spain: Christians as percent of the total population: The latest value from 2013 is 88.8 percent, a decline from 89.3 percent in 2012. In comparison, the world average is 51.1 percent, based on data from 145 countries. Historically, the average for Spain from 1960 to 2013 is 95.9 percent. The minimum value, 88.8 percent, was reached in 2013 while the maximum of 98.9 percent was recorded in 1960.

In 2024, approximately ** percent of the population aged 75 and older reported being religious. In contrast, in the ***** age group, ****percent reported not being religious. Between the ages of ** and **, **** percent were not religious.

Since 1980, the percentage of nonreligious people has more than quadrupled. In that year, 8.5 percent of the Spanish population was nonreligious. By 2024, more than 39 percent of the Spanish population reported not being religious.

This statistic presents the share of the Spanish population affiliated with a religious denomination in 2018, broken down by origin of the person. To that date, about ** percent of people born in Spain were affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, whereas only ** percent of those abroad were followers of this denomination. It is worth noting that Islam represented about ** percent of the population born abroad and almost ** percent had no affiliation.

The CIRES studies are conducted over a period of months in 1990. In 1990 the studies explore family formation and dissolution, health and health culture, and religious beliefs and practices. Studies are conducted under the supervision of Juan Diez Nicols October 1990 topics include life satisfaction, state of mind, frequency of relationships. Cantril's scale for the individual, Spain and the world, spatial identification, temporal orientation, degree of happiness, most important world objectives, marriage history, attitudes about marriage, importance of children, attitudes on divorce, attitudes on and the use of contraception, siblings, and basic demographics such as age, gender, marital status, occupation, education, religiosity, social class, birthplace, place of residence, and monthly earnings. October Sample: 1.200 persons of either sex, 18 years old and over, living in Spain. Random sample, stratified by autonomous regions and unicipalities according to their size. Field Research: Conducted from the 1st to the 7th of October 1990, through personal interview at the interviewees' homes, by Intercampo, Inc., Supervision by A.S.E.P of 20% of the interviews. November 1990 topics include life satisfaction, state of mind, frequency of relationships. Cantril's scale for the individual, Spain and the world, spatial identification, temporal orientation, degree of happiness, most important world objectives, general health status, chronic disease in the past year, person with whom R consulted about chronic illness, pain in the last 2 weeks, who consulted with about pain, bed days last 2 weeks, drugs last 2 weeks, types of drugs taken, doctors consulted last year, time waited for doctor appointment, travel time to doctor, waiting time at doctor appointment, hospitalizations, length of time spent in last hospitalization, reason for hospitalization, type of health insurance, health insurance payer, opinion on who should pay for health costs, opinion on public vs private health care, important aspects of health care facilities, smoking habits, alcohol consumption, hours slept per day, leisure time, height, weight, and basic demographics details such as age, gender, marital status, occupation, education, religiosity, social class, birthplace, place of residence, and monthly earnings. November Sample: 1.200 persons of either sex, 18 years old and over, living in Spain. Random sample, stratified by autonomous regions and municipalities according to their size. Field Research: Conducted from the 29th to the 6th of November 1990, through personal interview at the interviewees' homes, by Redex Network (IOPE-ETMAR). Supervision by A.S.E.P of 20% of the interviews. The December study covered life satisfaction, state of mind, frequency of relationships. Cantril's scale for the individual, Spain and the world, spatial identification, temporal orientation, degree of happiness, most important world objectives,religious beliefs and practice, moral attitudes, religious background, religious practice, attitudes toward religious sacrements, attitudes toward the catholic church and its ministries, beliefs and religious attitudes. Basic demographic details include age, gender, marital status, occupation, education, religiosity, social class, birthplace, place of residence, and monthly earnings. December sample: 1.200 persons of either sex, 18 years old and over, living in Spain. Random sample, stratified by autonomous regions and municipalities according to their size. Field Research: Conducted from the 26th of November to the 1st of December 1990, through personal interview at the interviewees' homes, by Redex Network (IOPE-ETMAR). Supervision by A.S.E.P of 20% of the interviews.

Combined Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation in Spain data set, Waves 1, 2, and 3. This is the publicly available version of the ILSEG data (ILSEG is the Spanish acronym for Investigación Longitudinal de la Segunda Generación, Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation). Questions address the situations and plans for the future of young Spaniards who are children of immigrants to Spain, who were living in Madrid and Barcelona and attending secondary school in 2007-2008 and the 2011-2012 and 2015-2016 follow ups). The longitudinal study of the second Generation (ILSEG in its Spanish initials) represents the first attempt to conduct a large-scale study of the adaptation of children of immigrants to Spanish society over time. To that end, a large and statistically representative sample of children born to foreign parents in Spain or those brought at an early age to the country was identified and interviewed in metropolitan Madrid and Barcelona for wave 1. In total, almost 7,000 children of immigrants attending basic secondary school in close to 200 educational centers in both cities took part in the study. Because of sample attrition, wave 2 introduced a replacement sample. Additionally, a native born sample of children of Spaniards was also included to enable comparisons between native and immigrant-origin populations of the same age cohort.Topics include basic demographics, national origins, Spanish language acquisition, foreign language knowledge and retention, parents' education and employment, respondents' education and aspirations, religion, household arrangements, life experiences, and attitudes about Spanish society. Demographic variables include age, sex, birth country, language proficiency (Spanish and Catalan), language spoken in the home, number of siblings, mother's and father's birth country, religion, national identity, parent's sex, parent's marital status, parent's birth year, and the year the parent arrived in Spain.

• Scale of importance that you give in your life to different aspects of it: health, family, friends, politics, religion, economic well-being and work.
• Ideals you would risk your life for: country, another person, democracy,...
• Influence that a number of facts have on your important decisions: people's opinions, friends, religious beliefs and political convictions. Belief in God, in life after death, in heaven, in hell, in the soul, in sin or in reincarnation.
• Center where he practices his religion. Religious practice at home or association. A different place of religious practice. Frequency of attendance at the place of religious practice and assessment of the importance of a number of reasons for attending the place of religious practice: place where I can develop the faith, place of meeting with compatriots,...
• Current frequency of prayer and personal meditation.
• Preferred cohabitation situation: religious, civil marriage,... Qualities that parents should instill in their children.
• Frequency with which religion is spoken at home.
• Preference on the attendance of children in religion class in the event that they had them. Reasons.
• Type of centre I would prefer a child to attend. Reasons for choosing a religious center.
• Importance of different reasons why a child is preferred to attend a religious center.
• The phrase with which he agrees most about the teaching of religion in school: religious beliefs are necessary, it is important for education,...
• Agreement with phrases on the current importance of religion. Degree of importance that religion has in the education of children.
• I agree with various statements on the financing of schools.
• State-Church competences in the selection of religion teachers.
• Foreigners' opinion that there are teachers of their religion in schools, current number of teachers and competences in the selection of teachers of their religion.
• Opinion on the veracity of religion.
• Right to exercise other religious practices.
• Religious groups you would not like to have as neighbors: Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists,...
• Acceptance of the use of religious symbols or characters for humorous purposes in the media.
• Acceptance of a series of phrases about homosexuals, contraceptives and divorce.
• Agreement with euthanasia, suicide, abortion and artificial fertilization.
• Trust in institutions: parliament, catholic church, army,...
• Preference of treatment of the subject of religions by the Constitution.
• Financing of religions.
• Influence of the Catholic Church in Spain.
• Positioning against different positions of the Catholic Church: divorce, abortion, euthanasia, adoption by homosexual couples,...
• Rating of different international characters: Benedict XVI, John Paul II, Einstein, Bin Laden, Bush, Mohammed, Marx and Jesus Christ.
• Respect of Spanish society for religions in different areas: school, work,...
• Opinion on the attendance of Muslim girls with veils.
• Agreement with phrases on the influence of religious authorities on political life.
• Agreement with different phrases about the meaning of life and influence of people to change it: God cares about every human being, people cannot change the course of their lives,...
• Nationality of the interviewee and country of origin. Time of residence in Spain (year of arrival)
• Religious practice of foreigners in their country of origin and in Spain.
• Closeness to political parties.
• Ideological self-location scale (1-10).
• Civil status of the interviewee.
• Type of marriage.

TO THE CENTER RESPONSIBLE: - Role of the interviewee in the religious center. - Activities that take place in the religious center. Existence of a religious authority in the center and how to designate it. Not from members of the religious center. Percentage by gender and of partners with active participation in the religious centre. - Religious confession of non-evangelical and non-Muslim centers.

Spain has a long history of Islamic tradition under its belt. From cuisine to architecture, the southern European country has been linked to the North of Africa through many common elements. At the end of 2023, there were approximately 2.41 million Muslims in Spain, most of them of Spanish and Moroccan nationality, with upwards of eight hundred thousand believers in both cases. With a Muslim population of more than 660,000 people, Catalonia was home to the largest Muslim community in Spain as of the same date.

The not so Catholic Spain

Believers of a religion other than Catholicism accounted for approximately 3 percent of the Spanish population, according to the most recent data. Although traditionally a Catholic country, Spain saw a decline in the number of believers over the past years. Compared to previous years, when the share of believers accounted for slightly over 70 percent of the Spanish population, the Catholic community lost ground, while still being the major religion for the foreseable future.

A Catholic majority, a practicing minority

Going to mass is no longer a thing in Spain, or so it would seem when looking at the latest statistics about the matter: 50 percent of those who consider themselves Catholics almost never attend any religious service in 2024. The numbers increased until 2019, from 55.5 percent of the population never attending religious services in 2011 to 63.1 percent in 2019. The share of population that stated to be practicing believers and go to mass every Sunday and on the most important holidays accounted for only 15.5 percent.

This summary statistics data file contains a complete or 100-percent count of all persons in group quarters by sex and age, including ages under 1 to 74 with a category for ages 75 and over, as well as the total. The distribution is repeated for 18 race/Hispanic groups. Population in group quarters includes persons in institutional group quarters such as homes, schools, hospitals, or wards for the physically and mentally handicapped, hospitals or wards for mental, tubercular, or chronically ill patients, homes for unwed mothers, nursing, convalescent, and rest homes for the aged and dependent, orphanages, and correctional institutions. Noninstitutional group quarters include rooming and boarding houses, general hospitals, including nurses' and interns' dormitories, college students' dormitories, religious group quarters, and similar housing. Demographic items specify age, sex, state of birth, race, ethnicity, marital status, education, income, and type of group quarters lived in. Data are available for all counties and independent cities in the United States.

As of May 2023, the Popular Party (PP) is the party that has gained the most voting intentions from the Spanish Catholic population, with nearly 40 percent of practicing Catholics and approximately 27 percent of non-practicing Catholics intending to vote for this party. The preference of non-believing atheists, with more than 22 percent, is towards the Sumar party. As for believers in other religions, more than 24 percent stated that they would not vote in the July 23 elections.

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...

In 2023, ** percent of the population surveyed in Spain agreed with the idea that religious practices are important for the moral life of citizens. This represents an increase of * percentage points compared to 2017, when ** percent of Spaniards agreed.

In 2022, ** percent of the very religious agreed that science has a negative impact on religious belief, while only ** percent of the moderately religious agreed. On the other hand, ** percent of the not very religious population disagreed with this impact.

In 2023, the number of Muslim communities in Spain amounted to approximately ***** in total. Out of the ***** Muslim entities located in the country, *** were found in the autonomous community of Catalonia.

In 2023, Catalonia ranked as the Spanish autonomous community with the highest number of Muslims with more than *******. It was followed by Andalusia with approximately *******.

In 2024, the religious denomination other than the Catholic Church with the highest share of places of worship in Spain was the Evangelical Church, with ** percent of the total, followed by Islam with approximately ** percent of the non-Catholic places of worship.

In 2021, the Spanish government modified subsidy regulations for minority religious groups, ensuring that funds are directed towards promoting religious freedom. The government has allocated an annual budget of over 1.1 million euros for distribution to eligible minority religious organizations.