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Religious affiliation according to the 2021 census: final results

Changes in religious affiliation in the 2011 and 2021 censuses*

	Religious groups	2011 census**		2021 census
		Number of members	Percentage of the population declaring their religious identity	Number of members	Percentage of the population declaring their religious identity
1	Romanian Orthodox Church	16,307,004	86.45%	14,025,064	85.541%
2	Roman Catholic Church	870,774	4.62%	741,504	4.523%
3	Reformed church	600,932	3.19%	495,433	3.022%
4	Pentecostal Church	362,314	1.92%	404,475	2.467%
5	Greek-Catholic Church (Romanian Church united to Rome)	150,593	0.80%	115,457	0.630%
6	Baptist church	112,850	0.60%	103,213	0.630%
7	Seventh-day Adventist Church	80,944	0.43%	65,861	0.402%
8	Muslim religion	64,337	0.34%	58,347	0.356%
9	Hungarian Unitarian Church	57,686	0.31%	47,992	0.293%
10	Jehovah’s Witnesses	49,820	0.26%	43,340	0.264%
11	Evangelical Christian Church	42,495	0.23%	36,374	0.222%
12	Christian church of the ancient rite	32,558	0.17%	28,362	0.173%
13	Evangelical Lutheran Church	20,168	0.11%	20,026	0.122%
14	Serbian Orthodox Church	14,385	0.08%	17,159	0.105%
15	Romanian Evangelical Church	15,514	0.08%	7,690	0.047%
16	Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession	5,399	0.03%	3,739	0.023%
17	Jewish religion (Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania)	3,519	0.02%	2,708	0.017%
18	Armenian Church (Archdiocese of the Armenian Church)	393	0.0026%	806	0.005%
19	Other religion (religious associations or groups)	30,557	0.16%	223,956	0.146%
20	No religion	18,917	0.10%	71,430	0.436%
21	Atheists	20,743	0.11%	57,229	0.349%
22	Agnostics			25,485	0.155%
23	Information not available	1,259,739		2,658,165	13.95% of the total population
24	Total population surveyed	20,121,641	100%	19,053,815	100%

* Author’s personal interpretation.
** Available here.

D 18 July 2023 AGabriel Birsan