Australia: Dramatic Decline for Christianity, Sharp Rise of the ‘non religious’ Census shows | Christian News on Christian Today

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The latest census in Australia has shown a dramatic fall in those who identify as Christian, and a significant rise in those with ‘no religion’.

For the first time in its history, the proportion of Australians who say they have ‘no religion’ (29.6 per cent) overtook the number who identify as Catholic (22.6 per cent), according to analysis of Australia’s 2016 census by The Guardian.

In 1996, just 0.6 per cent of the population marked ‘no religion’ on their census, but has seen a dramatic shift in the following decades. In 2001 the figure was 16 per cent, which nearly doubled for the 2016 result (29.6 per cent).

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