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Religious affiliation of the population 2003 - 2009

Religious community	Year
	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	5 219 732	5 236 611	5 255 580	5 276 955	5 300 484	5 326 314	5 351 427
Lutheran National Church	4 396 813	4 386 336	4 373 556	4 355 949	4 334 586	4 299 186	4 273 425
Other Lutheran	1 019	1 012	1 031	1 032	1 017	1 076	1 196
Greek Orthodox Church in Finland	57 044	57 529	57 829	58 149	58 379	58 445	58 539
Other Orthodoxes	1 409	1 549	1 705	1 869	2 003	2 091	2 226
Jehovah's Witnesses	18 245	18 239	18 329	18 306	18 177	18 025	19 142
Free Church in Finland	13 443	13 565	13 711	13 895	14 022	14 233	14 292
Roman Catholic Church in Finland	7 897	8 094	8 446	8 783	9 184	9 672	10 090
Islamic congregations	2 748	2 833	4 239	4 944	5 689	6 822	8 230
Pentecostal Church i Finland	1 000	1 294	1 992	2 485	3 455	4 648	5 440
Adventist churches	4 099	4 031	4 015	3 986	3 821	3 751	3 688
Church of J.Chr. of Latter-day Saints	3 317	3 315	3 301	3 282	3 264	3 251	3 239
Baptist congregations	2 446	2 611	2 422	2 419	2 398	2 382	2 372
Methodist churches	1 244	1 250	1 256	1 281	1 267	1 279	1 301
Jewish congregations	1 189	1 203	1 184	1 194	1 181	1 230	1 236
Buddhist congregations	39	40	68	135	110	103	353
Anglican Church in Finland	99	97	93	88	89	88	89
Other	783	812	881	916	1 119	1 204	1 239
No religious affiliation	706 898	732 801	761 522	798 242	840 723	898 828	945 330

• Information on membership to a religious community registered in Finland is based on the Population Information System.

Source: Population Structure 2009, Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Markus Rapo (09) 1734 3238, vaesto.tilasto@stat.fi

Director in charge: Jari Tarkoma

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Updated 30.9.2010