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์ข…๊ต, ๊ธฐ๋„, ์‹ ์•™ ํ†ต๊ณ„ (2026)

์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ ์•™์„ ์‹ค์ฒœํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถœ์ฒ˜๊ฐ€ ๋ช…์‹œ๋œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์œผ๋กœ, ํ“จ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ์„ผํ„ฐ์™€ ๊ฐค๋Ÿฝ ๊ฐ™์€ 1์ฐจ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒ€์ฆ๋˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ฃผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

44%
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„ฑ์ธ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์ด์ƒ ๊ธฐ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์œจ
95%
์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€, ์ธ๋„๋„ค์‹œ์•„์˜ ๋งค์ผ ๊ธฐ๋„ ๋น„์œจ
35๊ฐœ๊ตญ ์ค‘ 14๊ฐœ๊ตญ
๊ณผ๋ฐ˜์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ผ ๊ธฐ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ฐ€

Statistics by country

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South KoreaMostly nonreligious, with a large Christian minorityUnited KingdomChristians fell below half the population in 2021CanadaA shrinking Christian majority as the nonreligious growAustraliaChristians dropped below half the population in 2021GermanyMore people now have no religion than belong to a churchAustriaA Catholic majority that is slowly shrinkingSwitzerlandPeople with no religion are now the biggest groupSpainA once deeply Catholic country secularizing fastMexicoStrongly Catholic, but evangelicals and the nonreligious growArgentinaA Catholic majority losing ground to evangelicalsColombiaA Catholic majority as evangelical churches surgeBrazilCatholics fading as evangelicals rise fastPortugalStill strongly Catholic, but slowly secularizingFranceMore people have no religion than any faithBelgiumNow a majority nonreligious countryItalyCatholic by identity, far less so in practicePolandDevoutly Catholic, but weekly practice is fallingPhilippinesOne of the most Catholic countries on earthSwedenAmong the most secular societies in the worldFinlandA Lutheran majority that keeps shrinking

์ด ํ†ต๊ณ„๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์„ฑ๋˜๋Š”๊ฐ€

์ถœ์ฒ˜ ์ธ์šฉ

๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ช…์‹œํ•œ 1์ฐจ ์ถœ์ฒ˜ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด, ์ง์ ‘ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1์ฐจ ์ถœ์ฒ˜

์ง‘๊ณ„ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํ“จ, ๊ฐค๋Ÿฝ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„ฑ์„œ ๊ณตํšŒ ๊ฐ™์€ ์›๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๋„ ํ‘œ๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜์น˜

๊ฐ ํ†ต๊ณ„๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์ง‘๋œ ์—ฐ๋„๋กœ ํ‘œ๊ธฐ๋˜์–ด, ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ดˆ์›”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฝํžˆ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒ€ํ†  ๋ฐ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ

์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜๋ฉด ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์ •๋˜๊ณ , ๋…ผ์Ÿ์ ์ธ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ‘œ์‹œ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ†ต๊ณ„๋Š” ํ“จ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ์„ผํ„ฐ, ๊ฐค๋Ÿฝ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„ฑ์„œ ๊ณตํšŒ, ๋˜๋Š” ๋™๋ฃŒ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์นœ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฐ™์€ 1์ฐจ ์ถœ์ฒ˜๋กœ ์ถ”์ ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์ง‘๋œ ์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ํ‘œ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ์›๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋’ค์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ •์˜์™€ ์œ ์˜ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๋ฐํžˆ๋ฉฐ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜๋ฉด ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ์—‡๊ฐˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐํž™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋‹ค์šด๋กœ๋“œํ•˜์„ธ์š”

์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ 2๋ถ„์ด๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธฐ๋…๊ต ๊ธฐ๋„ ์•ฑ์„ ๋‹ค์šด๋กœ๋“œํ•˜๊ณ , ์•ฑ ์ฐจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ธฐ๋„ ์Šต๊ด€์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.