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Representing 43.6% of the Welsh population in 2021, Christianity is the largest religion in Wales. Wales has a strong tradition of nonconformism , particularly Methodism . The Church of England was the established church until 1920 when the disestablished Church in Wales , was set up as a self-governing, though still Anglican , church.
Representing 43.6% of the Welsh population in 2021, Christianity is the largest religion in Wales. Wales has a strong tradition of nonconformism, particularly Methodism.From 1534 until 1920 the established church was the Church of England, but this was disestablished in Wales in 1920, becoming the still Anglican but self-governing Church in Wales.
Christianity is the dominant religion in the United Kingdom. Results of the 2021 Census for England and Wales showed that Christianity is the largest religion (though makes up less than half of the population), followed by the non-religious, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
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This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
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.
The second largest attending faith in Wales is Roman Catholic, with an estimated 43,000 adherents. [208] Non-Christian religions are small in Wales, making up approximately 2.7 per cent of the population. [210] Islam is the largest, with 24,000 (0.8 per cent) reported Muslims in the 2011 census. [210]
In November 2022, the 2021 census results were published showing that being non-religious was the largest single statistical group in Wales. Wales Humanists coordinator Kathy Riddick responded to this news by noting that Wales is now officially the least religious country in the UK and that this was not a new development.