The number of self-identifying Christians in Australia has dropped below 50 per cent for the first time as more people say they’re 'non-religious', census data shows. | KnottMatthew angusthomson_
Australia has become strikingly more Godless over the past decade, with the latest census data showing the proportion of self-identified Christians dropping below 50 per cent for the first time and a soaring number of people describing themselves as “non-religious”.
The proportion of Australians identifying as Catholic declined from 23 to 20 per cent over the past five years while self-identified Anglicans dropped from 13 to 10 per cent.Thirty-nine per cent of Australians now identify as non-religious, up from 30 per cent in 2016 and almost double the 22 per cent of Australians who ticked the “no religion” box a decade ago.
The Church’s socially conservative teachings on same-sex marriage and sex before wedlock seem outdated to most young people today, she said. Islam’s share of the national population has grown to 3.2 per cent, up from 2.6 per cent in 2016. Around 813,000 people in Australia identify with Islam.
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