Churchgoing in the UK
Churchgoing in the UK
1
% of UK adults belong to this group.
They have never been to church in their life, apart from weddings, baptisms or funerals.
open
non-churched
5
% of UK adults belong to this group.
Yet they say they are very or fairly likely to go to church in future.
open de-churched
They say they are very likely or fairly likely to go to church in future.
They do not go to church (except for weddings, funerals and baptisms) but they used to attend in the past.
fringe attenders
3
% of UK adults go to church less than monthly but at least six times a year.
regular
attenders
15
% of UK adults go to church at least once a month. This is equivalent to 7.6 million regular churchgoers in the UK.
occasional attenders
7
% of UK adults go to church less than six times a year but at least once a year.
other faiths
6
% of the UK population say they belong to another faith.
They have never been to church in their life, apart from weddings, baptisms or funerals.
closed de-churched
closed
non-churched
28
% of UK adults belong to this group.
They do not go to church, but they used to attend in the past.
32
% of UK adults belong to this group - the largest in the survey.
They say they are not very or not at all likely to go to church in future.
They say that they are not very or not at all likely to go to church in future.
Based on research conducted in 2007
and published by Tearfund.
www.tearfund.org