Countries With the Lowest Religious Attendance

Every country with a figure for religious attendance, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are China (2.79%), Denmark (6.48%) and Estonia (8%). The middle country of the 108 has 39.5%.

What this measures

Share attending religious services frequently, in % of respondents. Source: World Values Survey Association and European Values Study. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

The share who attend religious services at least once a month. This measures taking part, not belief or belonging to a religion. Those are three different things, and they can differ sharply. A country can be almost entirely religious by belonging and yet rarely attend anything. No "better" direction is set, and none could be defended. Attendance describes how people live. It does not show whether a country is doing well, and calling either end the good one would be a claim this site has no basis for. The survey runs in waves, not every year, so data for each country are sparse and uneven.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2010–2022. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on religious attendance

• Countries With the Highest Religious Attendance
• Religious attendance by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.