What Countries Have a National Religion / National Religion by Country 2025

Country	Official Religion (Pew)↑	Preferred Religion (Pew)	Religion (Wiki)	Additional Details
China	Atheism		Other/mixed	China's government is officially atheist, but officially recognizes and allows five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism. Official and unofficial limitations on religious expression and assembly exist, but religion is not banned.
Cambodia	Buddhism		Buddhism
Bhutan	Buddhism		Buddhism
Vatican City	Catholicism		Catholicism
United Kingdom	Christianity		Anglicanism, Calvinism	England - Anglicanism, Scotland - Calvinism
Zambia	Christianity		Christianity
Dominican Republic	Christianity		Other/mixed	The constitution of the Dominican Republic specifies that there is no state church and provides for freedom of religion and belief. However, a concordat with the Holy See designates Catholicism as the official religion.
Greece	Christianity		Eastern Orthodoxy
Denmark	Christianity		Lutheranism
Norway	Christianity		Lutheranism
Costa Rica	Christianity		Catholicism
Armenia	Christianity		Other/mixed	Armenia's constitution explicity states that "The Republic of Armenia shall recognise the exclusive mission of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church, as a national church, in the spiritual life of the Armenian people, in the development of their national culture and preservation of their national identity."
Malta	Christianity		Catholicism
Iceland	Christianity		Lutheranism
Liechtenstein	Christianity		Catholicism
Monaco	Christianity		Catholicism
Tuvalu	Christianity		Calvinism
Pakistan	Islam		Islam
Bangladesh	Islam		Islam
Egypt	Islam		Islam
Iran	Islam		Islam
Algeria	Islam		Islam
Iraq	Islam		Islam
Afghanistan	Islam		Islam
Yemen	Islam		Islam
Morocco	Islam		Islam
Malaysia	Islam		Islam
Saudi Arabia	Islam		Islam
Somalia	Islam		Islam
Tunisia	Islam		Islam
Jordan	Islam		Islam
United Arab Emirates	Islam		Islam
Libya	Islam		Islam
Palestine	Islam		Islam
Oman	Islam		Islam
Mauritania	Islam		Islam
Kuwait	Islam		Islam
Qatar	Islam		Islam
Bahrain	Islam		Islam
Djibouti	Islam		Islam
Comoros	Islam		Islam
Maldives	Islam		Islam
Brunei	Islam		Islam
Israel	Judaism		Other/mixed	Israel is defined in several of its laws as a "Jewish and democratic state" (medina yehudit ve-demokratit). However, the term "Jewish" is a polyseme that can describe the Jewish people as either an ethnic or a religious group.
Indonesia		Multiple	Other/mixed	Indonesia is officially a presidential republic and a unitary state that does not declare or designate a state religion. Officially, the government only recognizes six religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism.
Russia		Christianity	Other/mixed	Though a secular state under the constitution, Russia is often said to have Russian Orthodoxy as the de facto national religion, despite other minorities.
Vietnam			Other/mixed	Vietnam is officially atheist (although sometimes also referred as atheist-Buddhist), but recognizes only 38 religious organizations and one dharma practice.
Turkey		Islam	Islam
Thailand			Buddhism
France			Other/mixed	While most of France has no official religion, the Alsace-Moselle region has four (Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism and Calvinism) thanks to a political agreement established in 1801 that has yet to be fully abolished.
Italy		Christianity	Catholicism
Myanmar		Buddhism	Buddhism
Spain		Christianity	Catholicism
Argentina		Christianity	Catholicism
Poland		Christianity	Catholicism
Uzbekistan			Islam
Peru		Christianity	Catholicism
Syria		Islam	Islam
Sri Lanka		Buddhism	Buddhism
Romania		Christianity	none
Guatemala		Christianity	Catholicism
Haiti		Christianity	Other/mixed	While Catholicism has not been the state religion since 1987, a 19th-century concordat with the Holy See continues to confer preferential treatment to the Catholic Church, in the form of stipends for clergy and financial support to churches and religious schools.
Honduras		Christianity	none
Tajikistan			Islam
Papua New Guinea		Christianity	none
Sweden			Lutheranism
Portugal			Other/mixed	Although Church and State are formally separate, the Catholic Church in Portugal still receives certain privileges.
Togo		Multiple	none
Hungary			Other/mixed	The preamble to the Hungarian Constitution of 2011 describes Hungary as "part of Christian Europe" and acknowledges "the role of Christianity in preserving nationhood", while Article VII provides that "the State shall cooperate with the Churches for community goals."
Belarus		Christianity	none
Switzerland			Other/mixed	Switzerland is officially secular at the federal level but 24 of the 26 cantons support both the Swiss Reformed Church and the Roman Catholic Church in various ways.
Laos		Buddhism	Buddhism
Turkmenistan			Islam
Paraguay			Catholicism
Nicaragua		Christianity	Other/mixed	The Nicaraguan Constitution of 1987 states that the country has no official religion, but defines "Christian values" as one of the "principles of the Nicaraguan nation"
Bulgaria		Christianity	Eastern Orthodoxy
Serbia		Multiple	none
El Salvador			Catholicism
Singapore			Other/mixed	Officially a secular country and does not have a state religion, and has been named in one study as the "most religiously diverse nation in the world", with no religious group forming a majority. However, the government gives official recognition to ten different religions.
Lebanon			Other/mixed	There are 18 officially recognized religious groups in Lebanon, each with its own family law legislation and set of religious courts.
Liberia		Christianity	none
Finland		Christianity	Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy
Panama		Christianity	Catholicism
Georgia		Christianity	Eastern Orthodoxy
Eritrea		Multiple	none
Mongolia		Buddhism	none
Moldova		Christianity	none
Lithuania		Multiple	none
Equatorial Guinea		Christianity	none
Cyprus			Eastern Orthodoxy
Eswatini		Christianity	none
Luxembourg			Other/mixed	Luxembourg is a secular state, but the Grand Duchy recognizes and supports several denominations, including the Catholic Church, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Anglican and some Protestantism denominations as well as to Jewish congregations.
Cape Verde		Christianity	none
Samoa		Christianity	Christianity
Jersey			Anglicanism
Tonga		Multiple	none
Isle of Man			Anglicanism
Andorra		Christianity	Catholicism
Guernsey			Anglicanism
Faroe Islands			Lutheranism
Greenland			Lutheranism

While some countries founding documents clearly designate an official state religion, others are more vague. This can result in differences between a list created by one source and another.
For example, El Salvador’s constitution specifically prohibits restrictions based on differences of nationality, race, sex, or religion, but also states that the country recognizes the Catholic Church and gives it legal preference.
Similarly, the Dominican Republic’s constitution specifies that there is no state church, but the country also has an agreement with the Holy See that establishes Catholicism as the official religion.
A 2017 Pew Research poll separated countries into those with clear official religions, those with “preferred” religions that stopped just short of being official, and those which had no official or preferred religion.

There are also many countries that claim no national or state religion. Countries like the US also support and maintain the right to religious freedom. That simply means that people and citizens of the US are free to choose any religion they wish to follow.

Religion has been the backbone of many countries, and it has been the impetus behind many backs being broken too. There are also some places and some countries where certain religions are not only unsupported but forbidden. In some of those states, certain religions are even deemed illegal or outside the law.

There are also many much smaller sects and religious groups that aren’t listed, but that have organized structures. In some countries like Russia too, there is more than one recognized national religion. Russia, for example, has at least three.