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, 5.1 million of these define themselves as Christians, with 240,000 of these being very religious.

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.

The share of Swedes who believe in God declined continuously since 2010. While 47 percent of the respondents believed in God in 2010, the share had dropped by 15 percentage points in 2022, amounting to 33 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 reasons to leave a religion in Sweden. That year, the largest reason, with a share of 60 percent of respondents, was that they had gradually been drifting away from religion. The second largest reason, reaching a share of 57 percent, was that Swedes no longer believe in their religion's teachings and disagrees with its position on social issues.

In Sweden, a majority of the respondents see themselves as Christian. Moreover, around one third did not have any religious beliefs.

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 53 percent in 2022. 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.

In 2022, there were 188,000 members of Islamic communities under the umbrella of the Islamic Cooperation Council in Sweden. Additionally, there were over 150,000 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 18 out of every 100 people in Denmark were Muslims. In fact, 4. percent of the Danish population was Muslim in 2018. Swedes estimated 23 percent of every hundred people to be Muslim, but the actual number was 8 percent.

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.

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 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.

This statistic displays the opinion of Swedish people on whether people of different religious identities were real Swedes or not. According to the survey conducted in 2018 by Ipsos, a majority of respondents thought that Christians, Jews and Atheists were real Swedes. Less people considered Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims to be real Swedes.

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.

In 2022, there were 188,000 members of Islamic communities under the umbrella of the Islamic Cooperation Council in Sweden. The number of Muslims in Sweden increased steadily since 2014, when there were estimated to be around 110,000 Muslims in the country. The exact number of believing Muslims in Sweden is difficult to estimate, particularly as there may be people following Islam who are not a member of an Islamic community.

In 2021, the county with the highest percentage of church members in Sweden was Norrbotten, where more than two thirds of the population were members of the Church of Sweden. By contrast, Stockholm had the lowest share of church members with less than half of the population being members of the Church.

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.