Editing Germany (section)

=== Religion ===
{{Main|Religion in Germany}}{{further|Catholic Church in Germany|Evangelical Church in Germany|History of the Jews in Germany}}

[[File:Cologne cathedrale vue sud.jpg|thumb|[[Cologne Cathedral]], a UNESCO [[World Heritage Site]]]]
According to the 2022 census, [[Christianity in Germany|Christianity]] is the largest religion at 49.7% of the population; 23.1% identified as Protestant and 25.1% as Catholic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bevölkerung nach Religionszugehörigkeit im Zensus 2022 und im Zensus 2011 - je Bundesland |url=https://www.zensus2022.de/DE/Ergebnisse-des-Zensus/Sonderauswertung_Religionszugehoerigkeit.html |date=2 July 2024 |publisher=Statistisches Bundesamt |language=de}}</ref> 

[[Islam in Germany|Islam]] is the second-largest religion in the country.<ref name="Zensus 2011">{{Cite web |url=https://ergebnisse.zensus2011.de/#StaticContent:00,BEG_4_2_6,m,table |title=Bevölkerung im regionalen Vergleich nach Religion (ausführlich) -in %- |date=9 May 2011 |website=Zensus 2011 |publisher=[[Federal Statistical Office of Germany]] |page=Zensus 2011 – Page 6 |language=German |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621101339/https://ergebnisse.zensus2011.de/#StaticContent:00,BEG_4_2_6,m,table |archivedate=21 June 2013 }}</ref> In the 2011 census, 1.9% of respondents (1.52&nbsp;million people) gave their religion as Islam, but this figure is deemed unreliable because a disproportionate number of adherents of this faith (and other religions, such as Judaism) are likely to have made use of their right not to answer the question.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Zensus 2011 – Fakten zur Bevölkerung in Deutschland" am 31. Mai 2013 in Berlin |publisher=[[Federal Statistical Office of Germany]] |url=https://www.destatis.de/DE/PresseService/Presse/Pressekonferenzen/2013/Zensus2011/Statement_Egeler_zensus_PDF.pdf?__blob=publicationFile |language=German |accessdate=28 September 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010094954/https://www.destatis.de/DE/PresseService/Presse/Pressekonferenzen/2013/Zensus2011/Statement_Egeler_zensus_PDF.pdf?__blob=publicationFile |archivedate=10 October 2017 |trans-title=2011 Census – Facts about the population of Germany on 31 May 2013 in Berlin |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, there were an estimated 5.3–5.6 million Muslims with a migrant background{{efn|A migrant background was defined as having been born or having at least one parent born in a country from a prespecified list of countries with a significant Muslim population, or as having citizenship or having at least one parent with citizenship of one of these countries.<ref name=BAMF2020/>}} (6.4–6.7% of the population), in addition to an unknown number of Muslims without a migrant background.<ref name="BAMF2020">{{cite web|title=Muslimisches Leben in Deutschland 2020|publisher=[[Federal Office for Migration and Refugees]]|date=April 2020|url=https://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Anlagen/DE/Forschung/Forschungsberichte/fb38-muslimisches-leben.html|accessdate=9 August 2021}}</ref> Most of the Muslims are [[Sunni Islam|Sunnis]] and [[Alevism|Alevis]] from Turkey, but there are a small number of [[Shia Islam|Shi'ites]], [[Ahmadiyya]]s and other denominations. Other religions each comprise less than one percent of Germany's population.<ref name="Zensus 2011" />

In 2011, formal members of the [[History of the Jews in Germany|Jewish community]] represented no more than 0.2% of the total German population, and 60% of them resided in [[Berlin]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Germany: Berlin Facing Challenge Of Assimilating Russian-Speaking Jews|date=8 April 2008|url=http://www.rferl.org/a/1078688.html|publisher=Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty|accessdate=12 March 2017|archivedate=29 October 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029115657/http://www.rferl.org/a/1078688.html|url-status=live}}</ref> An estimated 80 to 90 percent of these Jews in Germany are Russian-speaking immigrants from the [[Post-Soviet states|former Soviet Union]], who came to Germany from the 1980s onwards.<ref>{{cite web|title=German Jews more than victims, community head says|url=http://jewishjournal.com/news/world/86509/|work=Jewish Journal|date=5 January 2011|archivedate=31 October 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031005406/http://jewishjournal.com/news/world/86509/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Jewish Berlin: Myths and Fragmentation|url=http://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/109-jewish-berlin-myths-and-fragmentation|publisher=Humanity in Action|accessdate=12 March 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313043802/http://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/109-jewish-berlin-myths-and-fragmentation |archivedate=13 March 2017}}</ref>

A study in 2023 estimated that 46.2% of the population are not members of any religious organisation or [[religious denomination|denomination]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 28, 2024 |title=Religionszugehörigkeiten 2023 |url=https://fowid.de/meldung/religionszugehoerigkeiten-2023|website=fowid.de |language=de}}</ref> [[Irreligion in Germany]] is strongest in major metropolitan areas and throughout the former [[East Germany]], which used to be predominantly Protestant before the imposition of [[state atheism]] under communism.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/22/atheism-east-germany-godless-place |title=Eastern Germany: the most godless place on Earth |last=Thompson|first=Peter |date=22 September 2012 |work=The Guardian|url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929114047/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/22/atheism-east-germany-godless-place |archivedate=29 September 2013 }}</ref><ref name="georgetown1">{{Cite web |url=http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/resources/germany |title=Germany |publisher=[[Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs]] |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324170951/http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/resources/germany |archivedate=24 March 2015 |accessdate=27 March 2015}}</ref>