in accordance with a 1964 amendment to the Constitution. Nine out of ten ethnic Norwegians are members of the State Church of Norway.
Norwegian religious expression is largely private; whereas most individuals state that religion is important to them, this is not generally expressed through active religious participation in organized communities. While roughly 85% of the population belong to the Church of Norway, only 10% attend church services or other Christianity-related meetings more than once a month.
Some 8,3% of the population are members of other religious communities, while 6.2% do not belong to any religious community at all. The largest religious and life-stance communities outside the Church of Norway are the Humanist Movement, represented by the Norwegian Humanist Association (75 000), Islam (72 000), the Pentecostal Movement (45 000), the Roman Catholic Church (45 000), the Evangelical-Lutheran free church (20 000) and several lesser free churches.
