For the first time in 2022, Protestants and Catholics made up less than half of the German population.
The Protestant Church (EKD), with 19.1 million members claimed, represents only 22.7% of the population.
The Catholic Church had 21.6 million faithful in 2021, the latest figure available, nearly 26% of the population.
The number of Muslims across the Rhine is generally estimated at between 4.5 and 6 million people, i.e. around 6% of the population.
In 2021, people who do not identify with any religion represented 42% of the population, or nearly 35 million Germans.