Principal religions
The last field census of population which gathered information on ethnic and religious affiliation was performed in 2002; these results are presented according to reports of the Slovene Statistical Office (SORS) in Table 1 below. After 2002, Slovenia has switched to register-based censuses, and there is no official data on ethnic and religious affiliation available since then. The Slovene Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre (SPO) has been performing empirical researches of Slovene society since 1968. Current survey of this institution, conducted on a representative sample of population (N=2000) for 2019, includes indicator of religion; the result is presented in Table 2 below.
Table 1: Population by religion - Census 2002
Religion | Percent |
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Catholic | 57,8 |
Evangelical (Lutheran) | 0,8 |
Other Protestant | 0,1 |
Orthodox | 2,3 |
Other Christian | 0,1 |
Islam | 2,4 |
Jewish | 0,0 |
Oriental | 0,1 |
Other religion | 0,0 |
Agnostic | 0,0 |
Believer but belongs to no religion | 3,5 |
Unbeliever, atheist | 10,1 |
Did not want to reply | 15,7 |
Unknown | 7,1 |
Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Census of population, households and housing 2002
Table 2: Population by belonging to religion (confession) – SPO 2019 (N=2000)
Belonging to religion (confession) | Percent |
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Catholic | 58,9 |
Islamic | 3,4 |
Orthodox | 2,6 |
Protestant (Lutheran) | 1,2 |
Other Christian | 0,2 |
Buddhist | 0,2 |
Other Asian religion | 0,1 |
Other religion | 0,3 |
Don’t know, no answer | 0,8 |
Don’t belong to any religion (confession) | 32,3 |
Source: Slovensko javno mnenje [Slovene Public Opinion, SPO] 2019/1, Ljubljana, junij 2019.