Christianity has experienced some of the largest losses from religious switching of any faith group around the world, according to our 2024 surveys. Religious switching refers to when people identify with a different religion in adulthood than they were raised in as a child.
Within Christianity, however, religious switching has affected the two largest subgroups – Catholicism and Protestantism – differently:
*Catholicism has lost more people than it’s gained in nearly all countries that we surveyed.
*Protestantism has seen a net gain from switching in nearly as many places as it has seen a net loss.
Here we take a closer look at religious switching into, out of, and between Catholicism and Protestantism, based on Pew Research Center surveys in 24 countries...
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