Statistics for 2016 show that 25% of Switzerland’s residents have no religion. As recently as 1960 the same figure was less than 1%. The percentage with no faith shows significant regional variations. While only 19% of Italian speakers have no religion, 24% in German-speaking Switzerland and 30% in French-speaking Switzerland don’t. Non-believers in Switzerland Infogram […]
Swiss fact: more than 40% of the population is not religious in some Swiss cantons
Recent figures show that nearly one in four Swiss follows no religion. In 2014, 1.9 million people in Switzerland stated that they belonged to no religious group. In some cantons the percentage in this category was above 40%. Religion has had a hand in shaping Switzerland. For example, in the 16th century, the canton of […]