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Australian 'no faith' rise

29 June 2012

THE first results from the 2011 Australian census suggest that the number of Australians claiming that they have no religion has outstripped the number of Anglicans.

The "No religion" category now represents 22 per cent of the population - a 29-per-cent increase since 2006. Anglicans, who were once the dominant religious group in Australia, now make up 17 per cent of the population.

This represents a four-per-cent decrease over the past ten years.

The Roman Catholic Church remains the largest religious group, comprising 25 per cent of the population - a decline of two per cent over ten years.

The figure for Christians, who formed 96 per cent of the Australian population in 1911, is now 61 per cent, a decline of seven per cent over the past decade. The fastest-growing religions are Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism, which reflects growth in migration from Asian countries.

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