• Belgium and the Netherlands: place of religion in life 2017

This statistic displays the place of religion in life in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2017. The majority of the respondents participating in this survey in both countries said that religion did not play a really important part in their lives. In Belgium, 64 percent of the participants stated that religion does not play too much of a role or not at all an important role in their life. In the Netherlands, this was 56 percent of the respondents.

How important is religion in your life?*

Characteristic	Very/somewhat important	Not too/not at all important
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Release date

May 2018

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Region

Belgium, Netherlands

Survey time period

April 2017 to August 2017

Number of respondents

1,500 (Belgium) and 1,497 (the Netherlands)

Age group

18 years and older

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.