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Status of religious population in South Korea in 2023 [ 1] No religion (52%) Christianity (32%) Buddhism (14%) Other (2%) Religion in South Korea is diverse. Most South Koreans have no religion. Christianity ( Protestantism and Catholicism) and Buddhism are the dominant confessions among those who affiliate with a formal religion.
Christianity saw a huge increase in the number of people professing it in the 1970s and 1980s. Growth continued in the 1990s, but at a slow pace, with numbers declining since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Christianity is an important religion in regions including Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi-do, and Honam.
Korea is a country where three of the world's major religions, Christianity, Buddhism, and Confucianism peacefully coexist. [61] According to 2015 statistics, 43.1% of Korean population has a religion and 2008 statistics show that over 510 religious organizations were in the South Korea population. [61] Irreligious: 51% [62] Christianity: 31% ...
The 2005 South Korean census showed 29.2 percent of the population identifying as Christian, up from 26.3 percent ten years previously. [16] Catholics tend to be better educated than most other religious groups in South Korea, in the sense that they have a high number of college graduates (50.4%) and post-graduate degrees (11.6%) per capita. [ 17 ]
Indigenous statistics come from the U.S. Department of State's International Religious Freedom Act (2009), [90] based on the highest estimate of people identified as indigenous or followers of indigenous religions that have been well-defined. Due to the syncretic nature of these religions, the numbers may not reflect the actual number of ...
Religion: [3] no statistics available; predominantly Buddhism, Shamanism, Confucianism, and Cheondoism (see "religion in North Korea") Language: [3] Korean. Literacy [3] definition: age 15 and over can read and write Korean using the Korean script Hangul total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100% (2015 est.)
As of the year 2023, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest religion by population. [2] According to a PEW estimation in 2020, Christians made up to 2.38 billion of the worldwide population of about 8 billion people.
The Republic of Korea is a member party to the UN multilateral treaty International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which provides that every individual has the right and freedom to adopt a religion or belief of his/ her choice and to manifest his/ her religion or belief either individually or in community with others, either in public or private (article 18), every individual ...