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For information on religious festivals go to
www.bbc.co.uk/religion/tools/calendar/
For information on the main religions in the UK please go to Religion & belief in the workplace
EHRC Minority mapping
www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/projects/Modernmulticulturalism/Pages/Mapping.aspx
Useful Statistics
We aim to identify those facts and figures which will support employers on this agenda and will be adding more over time.
Here we start with information based on the 2001 Census. We have only listed the eight most popular religion/belief responses. For a full breakdown please go to www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001
This information can be copied and pasted for presentations.
| Total UK Population(Census 2001) | 58,789,194 | ||
| Religion / Belief / Non-Belief | Numbers | % |
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| 1 | Christian | 41,014,811 | 71.8 |
| 2 | No religion | 8,596,488 | 15.1 |
| 3 | Muslim | 1,588,890 | 2.8 |
| 4 | Hindu | 558,342 | 1.0 |
| 5 | Sikh | 336,179 | 0.6 |
| 6 | Jewish | 267,373 | 0.5 |
| 7 | Any other religion | 159,167 | 0.3 |
| 8 | Buddhist | 149,157 | 0.3 |
Notes
"No religion" includes people who ticked 'None' on the religion question plus those who wrote in Jedi Knight, Agnostic, Atheist and Heathen and those who ticked 'Other' but did not write in any religion.
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