What Is The Religious Makeup Of New Zealand

Summary
Adherents
Religious Freedom
Religious Regulation
Religious Support
Socio-Economic
Constitution

New Zealand - Major World Religions²

New Zealand - Largest Religious Groups²

Preferred Religion (2015)¹: Western Christian	Majority Religion (2015)²: Non Religious (incl. Atheist) (twoscore.4%)

Religious Adherents, (2015)²		New Zealand	Australia/New Zealand	World
Christian		43.99%	56.46%	29.88%
	Protestant	23.17%	27.29%	ix.58%
	Cosmic	11.34%	22.61%	14.95%
	Orthodox	0.33%	2.38%	3.05%
Not Religious		40.36%	27.73%	12.one%
	Unspecified Not Religious	38.88%	25.94%	10.eleven%
	Atheist	1.48%	1.79%	1.97%
Hindu		2.2%	i.79%	fourteen.55%
Buddhist		1.4%	2.52%	vi.65%
Muslim		1.xiv%	2.36%	22.98%
	Sunni	0.85%	2.31%	nineteen.28%
	Shiite	0.29%	0.41%	iii.44%
Sikh		0.51%	0.5%	0.36%
New Age/Neo-Religionists		0.49%	0.47%	0.15%
Jewish		0.xvi%	0.41%	0.19%
Indigenous		0.07%	0.04%	2.5%
Bahai		0.06%	0.06%	0.11%
Due east Asian Complex		0.03%	0.22%	4.85%
	Taoist	0.02%	%	0.25%
	Shintoist	0.01%	%	0.49%
Zoroastrian		0.02%	0.01%	%

Religious Demography³

The country is an isle nation with an area of 103,000 square miles and a population of four.2 one thousand thousand. According to 2006 census information, percentages of religious affiliation are: Anglican, 14.8 pct; Roman Catholic, 13.6 per centum; Presbyterian, ten.vii percent; other Christian, 8.ii per centum; Christian (no specific identification), 5 percentage; Methodist, three.3 percent; Buddhist, 1.7 percent; Hindu, one.7 percent; and Muslim, 1 per centum. At that place were as well more than 90 religious groups that together constituted less than one percent of the population. In addition, 34.7 pct stated that they had no religious affiliation.

The indigenous Maori (estimated at xv percentage of the population) tend to be followers of Presbyterianism, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), or Maori Christian groups such equally Ratana and Ringatu. The Auckland expanse, which accounts for approximately 33 pct of the country's population, exhibited the greatest religious diversity.

While the country is predominantly Christian, recent trends indicate that it is becoming more religiously various. According to the 2006 census, approximately 56 percent of citizens identify themselves as Christian, a 5 percent decrease from the 2001 census. Within the Christian community, Anglicans and Presbyterians exhibited a decline between 2001 and 2006, while the number of self-identified Pentecostals and "Evangelical, Born Once again, and Fundamentalist Christians" increased by 17.eight percent and 25.half dozen percent, respectively. Syncretistic Maori Christian churches such as Ratana and Ringatu also experienced significant growth, and the proportion of Roman Catholics and Methodists grew slightly. During the same period, not-Christian religious groups connected to show steady growth rates, driven primarily by clearing.

Sources

^i. The Religious Characteristics of States Dataset Project: Regime Religious Preference (GRP) measures government-level favoritism toward, and disfavor against, xxx religious denominations. A series of ordered chiselled variables index the land'southward institutional favoritism in 28 different ways. The variables are combined to form five composite indices for five broad components of state-religion: official condition, religious education, fiscal support, regulatory burdens, and freedom of practice. The five components' composites in turn are farther combined into a single composite score, the GRP score. The RCS Data Projection would like to acknowledge, recognize, and express our deepest gratitude for the pregnant contributions of Todd M. Johnson, the principal investigator of the Globe Christian Database, the co-principal investigator of the World Faith Database, and co-author of the World Christian Encyclopedia series.

^ii. The Religious Characteristics of States Dataset Project: Demographics reports almanac estimates of religious demographics, both country by country and region by region. It estimates populations and percentages of adherents of 100 religious denominations including second level subdivisions within Christianity and Islam. The RCS Data Projection would like to acknowledge, recognize, and express our deepest gratitude for the meaning contributions of Todd M. Johnson, the principal investigator of the World Christian Database, the co-principal investigator of the Globe Faith Database, and co-author of the Earth Christian Encyclopedia series.

^3. The U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom Report is submitted to Congress annually by the Department of Land in compliance with Department 102(b) of the International Religious Liberty Act (IRFA) of 1998. This report supplements the well-nigh contempo Human Rights Reports past providing boosted detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom. It includes individual country capacity on the status of religious freedom worldwide. A dataset with these and the other international measures highlighted on the country pages can exist downloaded from this website. These State Department reports are open source.