New Zealand: 1.8 times as many Catholics as Anglicans
2023 census: 449.5 thousand Catholics and 245.3 thousand Anglicans. Multiple religions could be reported; groups cannot be added to count residents.
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2023 census: 449.5 thousand Catholics and 245.3 thousand Anglicans. Multiple religions could be reported; groups cannot be added to count residents.
Bars start at zero. Each uses a published value; the year and measurement universe are listed below.
- Catholics thousand persons
449.47 (2023)
- Anglicans thousand persons
245.3 (2023)
- Hindus thousand persons
144.75 (2023)
- Muslims thousand persons
75.14 (2023)
- Sikhs thousand persons
53.41 (2023)
Published estimates with the same units. Small bounded estimates are not substituted as exact values. This is a descriptive comparison.
New Zealand 2013, 2018 and 2023 censuses: self-identified religious affiliation of the usually resident population; CEN23_ECI_017, national total, all ethnicities and genders. The 28 categories include totals and nonresponse. Up to four affiliations are counted per person; communities overlap and must not be added as independent groups. Christian nfd is an unspecified Christian response, not all Christians. No religion is broader than atheism. Object to answering and Not elsewhere included remain separate. Jedi in 2013 is _U.., omitted rather than zero. Fixed random rounding applies; components need not sum exactly. Our shares use count / published Total - religious affiliation × 100, with denominators 4,242,048 (2013), 4,699,755 (2018), 4,993,923 (2023): 2013 no religion is 38.55%. The published 41.9% uses the separately retained Total stated denominator of 3,901,164. 2018/2023 missing answers were supplemented by historic census responses and imputation: a zero residual does not imply complete response. In 2023, 84.4% came from current responses, 9.2% from historical censuses, and 6.5% from imputation (rounded shares). Changes in missing-data treatment affect comparability even with a common all-resident denominator. Some detailed categories were reclassified after 2018; population change is not individual switching. Public browser table text captured on 7 October 2026; the HTTP CSV download did not complete. This work is based on/includes Stats NZ’s data which are licensed by Stats NZ for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
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