Religious belonging and religious demography
Religious belonging and religious demography
The grand, overarching trend in religious demography in Norway is that the Church of Norway is gradually losing its members. From a membership encompassing 94% of the population in 1970, reduced to 65% in 2022, the church has lost members both to the growing group of religiously unaffiliated, which currently stands at 20%, and to membership in other faith communities, which make up 15%. Simultaneously, the belief in God has gradually diminished: surveys measuring whether people believe in God started in 1985, and in 2016, the number of non-believers surpassed for the first time the believers, with 39% against 37%, and 23% undecided.
7 June 2022