The number of Australians moving away from religion is rising fast, with new statistics revealing that the proportion of Australians identifying as having ‘no religion’ has risen from merely 0.7 percent in 1961 to almost 40 percent 2021.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’s census from five years earlier showed that the proportion of irreligious was at 30.1 percent and 22.3 percent ten years earlier.
“The religion question holds a special place in the Census—it is one of the few topics that has been in every one of Australia’s 18 Censuses and is the only question that is voluntary,” Australian Statistician David Gruen AO said in a release….