For the first time, a majority in Scotland declares they do not belong to any religion

According to the census carried out in 2022 in Scotland, 51.1% of the population declares “that they do not belong to any religion” against a corresponding percentage of 36.7% in 2018 and 27.5% in 2001. This unprecedented fact, gave the UK's member nation's census agency today revealed 'Protestants' make up the largest proportion The number of people who say they belong to the Protestant Church of Scotland has fallen by more than a million since 2001 in this region of more of five million inhabitants. They make up 20.4% of the population. The percentage of those who say they are Catholic has fallen from 15.9% to 13.3%, in contrast to the percentage who say they are Muslim, which has increased from 1.45% to 2.2% over the past decade. The same trend is observed in the rest of the UK. In England and Wales, those asked to be of no religion came second in the last census in 2021 at 37.2% compared to 25.2% in 2011. For the first […]
Source: News Beast

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