25% Finns have no religious affiliation

One-quarter of the country’s population does not belong to any religious community registered in Finland, according to Statistics Finland.

As of 2017, thirty per cent of the men and 23 per cent of the women in the country have no religious affiliation.

The share of persons with no religious affiliation is the highest for those in their thirties. The share of persons without membership of any religious community is the highest among those aged 30 to 39, accounting for 40 per cent of that age group.

One-third of the Finnish-speaking persons aged 30 to 39 do not have membership of a religious community, while the percentage for foreign language speakers of the same age is 88 per cent.

The share of persons not members of a religious community is the second highest among those aged 40 to 49, accounting for 34 per cent of the age group. The share is lowest, 14 per cent, for those aged 70 or over.

The share is also smaller than in the rest of the population for children and young people: 18 per cent of those aged 0 to 19 have no religious affiliation.

The number of persons with no religious affiliation exceeds the one million mark in 2010. At the end of 2017, the number of persons with no religious affiliation had already exceeded 1.45 million.