Church of Sweden - History

History

Church of Sweden statistics
year population church members percentage
1972 8,146,000 7,754,784 95.2%
1975 8,208,000 7,770,881 94.7%
1980 8,278,000 7,690,636 92.9%
1985 8,358,000 7,629,763 91.5%
1990 8,573,000 7,630,350 89.0%
1995 8,837,000 7,601,194 86.0%
2000 8,880,000 7,360,825 82.9%
2005 9,048,000 6,967,498 77.0%
2010 9,415,570 6,589,769 70.0%
2011 9,482,855 6,519,889 68.8 %

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