Christianity Declines While More Report Having ‘No Religion’ in Australia

Christianity Declines While More Report Having ‘No Religion’ in Australia
Mary Immaculate Church in Waverley, Sydney, Australia on May 23, 2020. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
Jessie Zhang
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The number of Australians moving away from religion is rising fast, with new statistics revealing that the proportion of Australians identifying as having ‘no religion’ has risen from merely 0.7 percent in 1961 to almost 40 percent 2021.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics’s census from five years earlier showed that the proportion of irreligious was at 30.1 percent and 22.3 percent ten years earlier.

Jessie Zhang
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Jessie Zhang is a reporter based in Sydney, Australia, covering news on health and science.
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