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According to a 2012 survey held in Russia by Sreda Arena, 66,840,000 people in the country (47.4% of the total population) identify as Christians. [12] This includes: [12] 41.1%—58,800,000 members of the Russian Orthodox Church; 4.1%—5,900,000 people identifying as Christians without belonging to any church;
Between 1991 and 2008, the share of Russian adults identifying as Orthodox Christian rose from 31% to 72%, according to data from the International Social Survey Programme. During the same period, the share of Russia’s population that does not identify with any religion dropped from 61% to 18%.
Catholicism was the religion of 140,000 Russian citizens, about 0.1% of the total population, in 2012. They are concentrated in Western Russia with numbers ranging between 0.1% and 0.7% in most of the federal subjects of that region. [3]
As of the year 2023, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest religion by population. [2] According to a PEW estimation in 2020, Christians made up to 2.38 billion of the worldwide population of about 8 billion people.
Orthodox Christians, compared with 62% of Russians ages 16-29. Meanwhile, identifying with religions other than Orthodox Christianity was more common among younger Russians (13% among those ages 16-29, 7% among those ages 30-49) than among older
Religious Composition by Country, 2010-2050. Fresh data delivered Saturday mornings. ABOUT PEW RESEARCH CENTER Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It does not take policy positions.
Central and Eastern Europe is home to three-quarters of the world’s Orthodox population. 18 Orthodox Christians make up 57% of the region’s population, and form religious majorities among adults in 10 of the countries included in this survey. 19 Russia and Ukraine have the largest populations of Orthodox Christians in absolute terms ...
found that 65 percent of the population is Orthodox Christian, and 7 percent identify as Muslim. Religious groups constituting approximately 1 percent or less of the population each include Buddhists, Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Church of Jesus
A poll conducted in September by the independent Levada Center found that 63 percent of the population identified as Orthodox Christian and 7 percent as Muslim, while 26 percent reported having no religious faith.
Russia has the largest Eastern Orthodox population. It is where over half of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians live.