Religion in France
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Fast Facts and Religious Adherent Statistics | |
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Population | 68,084,217 (#21 in world) (2021 est.) |
Demonym | noun: Frenchman(men), Frenchwoman(women) adjective: French |
Ethnic Groups | Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities |
Religions | Christian (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic) 63-66%, Muslim 7-9%, Buddhist 0.5-0.75%, Jewish 0.5-0.75%, other 0.5-1.0%, none 23-28% (2015 est.) |
Christianity | 64.5% (2015 est.) |
Unaffiliated | 25.5% (2015 est.) |
Islam | 8% (2015 est.) |
Buddhism | 0.63% (2015 est.) |
Judaism | 0.63% (2015 est.) |
More than 25 percent of the French are nonbelievers or unaffiliated; among the religious, Roman Catholicism remains dominant by a wide margin. France is the homeland of the Protestant Reformer John Calvin, but Protestant Christianity remains a small minority.
Article Info
Title | Religion in France |
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Published | March 18, 2015 |
Last Updated | February 13, 2021 |
URL | religionfacts.com/ |
Short URL | rlft.co/335 |
MLA Citation | “Religion in France.” ReligionFacts.com. 13 Feb. 2021. Web. Accessed 6 Mar. 2021. <religionfacts.com/france> |