Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time since the partition of the island, census figures show.
The Census 2021 figures, published on Thursday, show that 45.7% of the region's population said they were either Catholic or brought up as a Catholic. The figures for Protestants (and other Christian faiths) was 43.5% while 1.5% were from non-Christian religions.
Northern Ireland had a significant Protestant majority when it was established in 1921 as part of the partition of Ireland. The last census, in 2011, recorded 48.4% of the population as being either Protestant or brought up Protestant, down almost five percentage points from 53.1% in 2001.
