How many Muslims are there in the UK 2015?

How many Muslims are there in the UK 2015?

There are 2.8million Muslims in the United Kingdom (4.4% of the population).

What percentage of UK is religious?

Eurostat’s Eurobarometer survey in December 2018 found that 53.6% of UK’s population is Christian, while 6.2% belong to other religions and 40.2% are atheists (30.3% Agnostics, 9.9% Anti-theists).

What percentage of UK is atheist?

At least 33% of Britons, and over 50% in some recent polls, do not identify with any faith when surveyed. Some 40% of Britons do not believe in a deity, and some 15% are agnostic.

What is the majority religion in the UK?

However using the same principle as applied in the 2001 census, a survey carried out in the end of 2008 by Ipsos MORI and based on a scientifically robust sample, found the population of England and Wales to be 47.0% affiliated with the Church of England, which is also the state church, 9.6% with the Roman Catholic …

What percentage of the population is religious?

Adherents in 2020

Is the UK ethnically diverse?

The United Kingdom is an ethnically diverse society. The largest ethnic group in the United Kingdom is White British, followed by Asian British. Ethnicity in the United Kingdom is formally recorded at the national level through a census.

What percentage of the UK’s population is any other religion?

Those who identified as “any other religion” made up the smallest part of the population of England (0.4% or almost 228,000), while in Wales, this was the case for those who identified as Jewish (0.1% or just over 2,000). “Any other religion” encompasses those religions that are not otherwise listed separately, with the exception of Christian.

What was the religious profile of England and Wales in 2011?

Across England and Wales in 2011, the profile of religious affiliation was skewed, meaning there were a few large groups and several much smaller ones (Figure 1). The religion that the largest proportion of the populations in both England and Wales identified with was Christianity (59% and 58% respectively).

What is the second largest religious group in the UK?

Muslims made up the second largest religious group with 4.8% of the population. Between 2001 and 2011 there has been a decrease in the proportion of people who identify as Christian and an increase in those reporting to have no religion.

What does the 2011 census ask about religion?

The England and Wales census asked the same voluntary religion question in 2011 as was asked in 2001. The question (‘What is your religion?’) asks about religious affiliation, that is how we connect or identify with a religion, irrespective of actual practise or belief.