Religious communities and life stance communities, 1 January 2016

Members of religious and life stance communities outside the Church of Norway, by religion/life stance. Per 1 January¹
	2016		Percentage change
	Members	Per cent	2015 - 2016	2012 - 2016
¹Including only members for whom government subsidy is received.
²One community not represented in the statistics for 2012.
³One community not represented in the statistics for 2010 and 2012.
Total	622 042	100.0	11.3	21.8
Baha'ism	1 149	0.2	1.3	5.6
Buddism	18 817	3.0	4.7	22.0
Hinduism	8 882	1.4	8.6	56.1
Islam	148 189	23.8	5.1	32.0
Judaism²	770	0.1	3.1	403.3
Christianity	349 083	56.1	17.7	20.8
Sikhism³	3 545	0.6	3.4	212.9
Philosophy	89 758	14.4	1.7	5.9
Other religious and philosophical communities	1 849	0.3	6.0	51.8

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