Religion in the Netherlands (Eurobarometer Survey 2019)[1]
Irreligion in the Netherlands pertains to atheism, agnosticism, and other forms of irreligion in the Netherlands. The majority of the population has stated that they were irreligious since 2015. There remains a historical and prominent Christian minority, as well as a large secular lapsed Christian minority. Also, about a million, mostly Sunni Muslims make up about a 5% Islamic minority, making Islam the second largest religion in the Netherlands – a new development through immigration, mostly since ca. 1970.[2] Until World War II, the Netherlands had a small but influential Jewish minority for centuries. The Holocaust all but irradicated them, but not the Jewish influences in Dutch history and culture.
- ^ "Special Eurobarometer 493, European Union: European Commission, October 2019, pages 229-230". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ Aside from a small 1950s influx of (Muslim) Indonesians since that country declared independence in the late 1940s