• Netherlands: reasons to leave a religion 2017

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This statistic displays the reasons to leave a religion in the Netherlands in 2017. When respondents in the Netherlands who were raised within a religion were asked why they left it, roughly 70 percent of the participants stated that they had gradually drifted away from religion. No longer believing in the religion's teachings was cited by 60 percent of the respondents. In contrast, only 14 percent said to have left their religion to marry someone from outside their own religion.

Reasons to leave a religion in the Netherlands in 2017

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Release date

May 2018

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Region

Netherlands

Survey time period

April 2017 to August 2017

Number of respondents

1,497*

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

respondents who were raised in a religion but now identify as unaffiliated

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

The source does not provide information on the original wording used during the survey. Thus, the wording chosen for this statistic may differ slightly from the one in the survey.

* Total number of Dutch respondents taking the survey. Of these participants, 48 percent said consider themselves as religiously unaffiliated. Only 22 percent of the currently religiously unaffiliated participants in Belgium had also been raised religiously unaffiliated. The other 78 percent is the subject of this statistic.