Irreligion in the Netherlands

Religion in the Netherlands (Eurobarometer Survey 2019)[1]

  Unaffiliated (Atheist & Irreligious) (52%)
  Catholicism (17%)
  Protestantism (15%)
  Other Christian (5%)
  Islam (5%)
  Buddhism (1%)
  Other religions (3%)

Irreligion in the Netherlands pertains to atheism, agnosticism, and other forms of irreligion in the Netherlands. Majority of the population has stated that they were irreligious since 2015. There remains a historical and prominent Christian minority, as well as a large secular lapsed Christian minority. Also, about a million, mostly Sunni Muslims make up about a 5% Islamic minority, making Islam the second largest religion in the Netherlands – a new development through immigration, mostly since ca. 1970.[2] Until World War II, the Netherlands had a small but influential Jewish minority for centuries. The Holocaust all but irradicated them, but not the Jewish influences in Dutch history and culture.

  1. ^ "Special Eurobarometer 493, European Union: European Commission, October 2019, pages 229-230". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  2. ^ Aside from a small 1950s influx of (Muslim) Indonesians since that country declared independence in the late 1940s

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