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Non-Christian religions, 2006

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Non-Christian religions, 2006

In 2006 there were over 2 million people resident in New Zealand who belonged to Christian faiths. Another 200,000 had a religious faith which was not Christian. This graph shows the distribution of the different religions among that group. There were also almost 1.3 million who stated they had no religion.

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Source: Statistics New Zealand.

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Paul Spoonley, Ethnic and religious intolerance – Religious intolerance, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/28195/non-christian-religions-2006 (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Paul Spoonley, published 17 February 2011.