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Religious belonging and religious demography

Religious denominations according to the Census of 2021

The census was taken between January and May 2021, for the third time since the establishment of the independent Slovak Republic and the fourth since the change of political system in 1989. The (...)

The census was taken between January and May 2021, for the third time since the establishment of the independent Slovak Republic and the fourth since the change of political system in 1989. The census data on the religious denominations of the population were collected on-line using a slightly modified self-assessment method compared to previous censuses. Each person was free to declare their religious denomination (from amongthe 18 churches recognised by the state in Slovakias), affiliation to world religion (islam, buddhism or hinduism), other religious affiliation (open-ended question) or to declare being without confession. The religious denomination of children under 15 was reported by their parents. The basic results have been published in February 2022.

According to the population census of 2021, the main religious groups were Roman Catholics (55.8%), the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession (5.3%), the Greek-Catholic Church (4% ), the Reformed Church (Calvinist) (1.6%) and "no religion or faith" (23.8%). These figures reflect a decline in the proportion of members of mainline churches, a slight increase of members of other non state-recognised groups and a significant increase of people who declared no religious affiliation over the past decade.

Source: website of the statistical office of the Slovak Republic

D 11 February 2022    AMiroslav Tížik

Population by religion 1991-2021

Religious group Affiliated 1991 In % Affiliated 2001 In % Affiliated 2011 In % Affiliated 2021 In % Apostolic Church 1116 0,00 3905 0,00 5831 0,10 9044 0,17 Bahá’ís x x x x 1065 0 (...)

Religious group Affiliated 1991 In % Affiliated 2001 In % Affiliated 2011 In % Affiliated 2021 In %
Apostolic Church 1116 0,00 3905 0,00 5831 0,10 9044 0,17
Bahá’ís x x x x 1065 0 311 0,01
Baptist Union 2465 0,00 3562 0,00 3486 0,10 3883 0,07
Seventh-day Adventist Church 1721 0,00 3429 0 2915 0,10 3001 0,06
Brethren Church 1861 0,00 3217 0,00 3396 0,10 3440 0,06
Czechoslovak Hussite church 625 0,00 1696 0,00 1782 0 581 0,01
Mormons 0 0,00 0 0,00 972 377 0,01
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession (Lutherans) 326 397 6,20 372 858 6,90 316 250 5,90 286 907 5,27
Methodist Church 4359 0,00 7347 0,10 10 328 0,20 3018 0,06
Greek Catholic Church 178 733 3,40 219 831 4,10 206 871 3,80 218 235 4
Christian Congregations 700 0,00 6519 0,10 7720 0,10 18 553 0,34
Religious Community of Jehovah’s Witnesses 10 501 0,20 20 630 0,40 17 222 0,30 16 416 0,3
Neo-Apostolic Church 189 0,00 22 0 166 0 73 0
Orthodox Church 34 376 0,60 50 363 0,90 49 133 0,90 50 677 0,93
Reformed Church (Calvinist) 82 545 1,60 109 735 2,00 98 797 1,80 85 271 1,56
Roman Catholic Church 3 187 383 60,40 3 708 120 68,90 3 347 277 62,00 3 038 511 55,76
Old Catholic Church 882 0,00 1733 0 1687 0 1778 0,03
Jewish Religious Communities 912 0,00 2310 0,00 1999 0,10 2007 0,04
Buddhism x x x x 2530 0,1 6722 0,12
Islam x x x x 1934 0,1 3862 0,07
Hinduism x x x x x x 975 0,02
Others – Brethren 116 0 x x x x x x
Others – Czechosl. Unitarians 13 0 x x x x x x
Others – Czechosl. Evangelical Churches 811 0 x x x x x x
Others - Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Conf. of Silesia 128 0 x x x x x x
Others – Christian churches 3625 0 x x x x 10 811 0,2
Others non Christian– Paganism and Slavic beliefs x x x x x x 4007 0,07
Others – non Christian ad hoc groups x x x x x x 16 186 0,3
Others - Non-Christian churches 1491 0 1412 0 x x 14 685 0,27
Others - total 6373 x 6294 x 23 340 0,5 45 689 0,83
Religious affiliation - total 3 840 949 72,80 4 521 549 84,10 4 100 237 76 3 799 331 69,72
No data 917 835 17,40 160 598 3,00 571 437 10,6 353 797 6,49
Without confession 515 551 9,80 697 308 13 725 362 13,40 1 296 142 23,79
Total 5 274 335 100 5 379 455 100 5 397 036 100 5 449 270 100

D 11 February 2022    AMiroslav Tížik

Population by main confessions 1900-2021 (in %)

Slovakia (in %) 1900 1910 1921 1930 1950 1991 2001 2011 2021 Roman Catholic Church 68,26 69,5 70,9 71,61 76,2 60,43 68,9 62 55,8 Greek Catholic Church 7,06 6,8 6,46 6,42 6,55 3,39 (...)

Slovakia (in %) 1900 1910 1921 1930 1950 1991 2001 2011 2021
Roman Catholic Church 68,26 69,5 70,9 71,61 76,2 60,43 68,9 62 55,8
Greek Catholic Church 7,06 6,8 6,46 6,42 6,55 3,39 4,1 3,8 4
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession (Lutherans) 14,13 13,5 12,77 12,02 12,88 6,19 6,9 5,9 5,3
Reformed Church (Calvinist) 5,45 5,4 4,8 4,38 3,24 1,57 2 1,8 1,6
Jews 5,06 4,8 4,53 4,1 0,22 0,02 0,04 0,1 -
Other 0,04 0,06 0,29 0 0 1,3 2,06 1,4 3
Without confession 0 0,02 0,23 1,47 0,91 9,7 13 13,4 23,8
Not specified 0 0 0,02 0 0 17,4 3 10,6 6,5

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D 11 February 2022    AMiroslav Tížik

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