The data shows that England and Wales have 'left behind the era when many people almost automatically identified as Christian,' according to the Archbishop of York.
Every other religion in the country has seen an increase or stayed the same as the data also shows number of people identifying as Muslim has increased by 1.2 million to 3.9 million between 2011 and 2021.
The data shows that England and Wales have "left behind the era when many people almost automatically identified as Christian," according to the Archbishop of York. Some 81.7 per cent of residents in the two countries self-identified as white on the day of the 2021 census, down from 86.0 per cent a decade earlier, the ONS said.
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