Fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian, according to the most recent census \u2014 the first time a minority of the population has followed the country\u2019s official religion.<\/p>\n
Britain has become less religious \u2014 and less white \u2014 in the decade since the last census, figures from the 2021 census released Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics revealed.<\/p>\n
Some 46.2% of the population of England and Wales described themselves as Christian on the day of the 2021 census, down from 59.3% a decade earlier. The Muslim population grew from 4.9% to 6.5% of the total, while 1.7% identified as Hindu, up from 1.5%.<\/p>\n
More than 1 in 3 people \u2014 37% \u2014 said they had no religion, up from 25% in 2011.<\/p>\n
The other parts of the U.K., Scotland and Northern Ireland, report their census results separately.<\/p>\n
Secularism campaigners said the shift should trigger a rethink of the way religion is entrenched in British society. The U.K. has state-funded Church of England schools, Anglican bishops sit in Parliament\u2019s upper chamber, and the monarch is \u201cdefender of the faith\u201d and supreme governor of the church.<\/p>\n
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