The latest Census data has shown a fall in the number of people who describe themselves as Christian.
The proportion of people in England and Wales identifying as Christian has dropped below 50% for the first time. Some 46.2% of the population described themselves as Christian on the day of the 2021 census, down from 59.3% a decade earlier, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
This is the first time the proportion has dropped below half. The percentage of people saying they had no religion jumped from around a quarter in 2011 (25.2%) to over a third in 2021 (37.2%).
