“How many people out there are Christian followers..” At the last census in

Comment on Islamification of Britain by David.

“How many people out there are Christian followers..”

At the last census in 2001, ~70% of British people said they are Christians, but in more recent polls the numbers dropped significantly. Religion in Britain is becoming the minority with 45% being atheists.

Religions in United Kingdom, 2001

Religion/Denomination: Current religion : Percent %
Christian 42,079,000 71.6
No religion 9,104,000 15.5
Muslim 1,591,000 2.7
Hindu 559,000 1.0
Sikh 336,000 0.6
Jewish 267,000 0.5
Buddhist 152,000 0.3
Other Religion 179,000 0.3
All religions 45,163,000 76.8
Not Answered 4,289,000 7.3
No religion + Not Answered 13,626,000 23.2
Base 58,789,000 100

That’s 2001.

In 2007 a BSA Survey gave the following figures.

Denominations in Great Britain

Religion/Denomination : Percent %
No religion 45.7
Church of England 20.9
Roman Catholic 9.0
Presbyterian/Church of Scotland 2.8
Methodist 1.9
Other Protestant 2.7
Christian (no denomination) 10.3
Other Christian 0.4
Muslim 3.3
Hindu 1.4
Jewish 0.4
Sikh 0.4
Other Religion 0.4
Refused / NA 0.5

Interesting take on this:

“British Social Attitudes Surveys have shown the proportion of those in Great Britain who consider they “belong to” Christianity to have fallen from 66% in 1983 to 48% in 2006.

The disparity between the 2001 census data and the above polls has been put down to both the decline in religious adherence in the UK since 2001 and a phenomenon of cultural religiosity, whereby many who do not believe in gods still identify with a religion because of its role in their upbringing or its importance to their family.[76]”

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_Kingdom

We get new census data in 2011, will be interesting to see if atheism hits 50% or if the polls are wrong (you can’t treat poll data as fact, so could be WAY off).

David