Religions
Declared religious affiliation
At the end of 2024, for the first time, people with no religious affiliation (46.8%) outnumbered the members of the Catholic (23.7%) and Protestant (21.5%) churches combined, according to the religious communities' own counts.
Statistics of religious communities (fowid) survey · Entire population, end of year
Source: fowid — Research Group on Worldviews in Germany · 2024No religious affiliation47%
Catholic24%
Protestant (EKD)22%
Muslim4%
Other religious communities4%
These figures come from the official registers of the churches and religious communities (legal membership, notably through the church tax), not from a survey of belief or practice — actual religious practice is considerably lower.