The church expects medlemsras – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

The church expects medlemsras – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

The assessment will be in the church’s long-term forecast, which in turn is based on Statistics Sweden’s population forecast.

– The trend is not carved in stone, the church manages to reverse the downward doptrenden the result may be different. But now given circumstances and facts, this is the development that we see, says Jonas Brom Anderson, head of research at the church office in Uppsala.

2013 was close to 6.4 million people, equivalent to 65.9 percent of Sweden population, members of the Swedish Church.