Religion
Budapest is the home to one of the most populous Christian community in Central Europe, numbered 1,128,502 people (63.5%) in 2001. The Hungarian capital is also the home of the largest Calvinist community on Earth. Hungarian Calvinists increased their number from 13,008 (4.8%) to 224,169 (12.6%) between 1870 and 2001 due to internal migration, triggered by higher fertility than other denominations. Hungarian Roman Catholics remained the most populous separate group with 808,460 people (45.8%).
Judaism also was a significant religion in Budapest, numbered 215,512 people (23.2%) in 1920, but they dropped to a smaller group (9,468 people, 0.5% in 2001) due to the Holocaust, Christianization, assimilation and immigration to Israel. Hungarian Jews has had the lowest fertility in Hungary, natural decline began in the 1920s. The community is still very aged with 52.6 years median age, about ten years higher than Catholics (41.7 years) and Calvinists (42.5 years).
| Denomination | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1941 | 1949 | 2001 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roman Catholic | 72.3% | 69.4% | 64.7% | 60.7% | 59.8% | 59.1% | 60.7% | 63.1% | 69.8% | 45.8% |
| Calvinist | 4.8% | 6.1% | 7.4% | 8.9% | 9.9% | 10.9% | 12.1% | 13.6% | 15.5% | 12.6% |
| Lutheran | 5.3% | 5.5% | 5.6% | 5.3% | 4.9% | 4.8% | 5% | 5.3% | 5.4% | 2.6% |
| Jewish | 16.6% | 19.7% | 21% | 23.6% | 23.1% | 23.2% | 20.3% | 15.8% | 6.4% | 0.5% |
| Others | 1% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.5% | 2.2% | 2% | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1.4% | 3.9% |
| Without religion | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 19.5% |
| No answer | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 15.1% |
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Budapest
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