In Norway, people are buying more Bibles than any other book. The Bible topped best seller lists in 2012 and is still popular in 2013, outselling works like Fifty Shades of Grey and Justin Bieber’s autobiography.
In any European country this would be newsworthy, but especially so in Norway. Only 1 percent of Norwegians attend church regularly.
I have long had an amateur interest in church statistics, and I came to the conclusion a long time ago that articles in both the mainstream press and elsewhere seem to make up the figures as they go along. First of all there are now over 100,000 Catholics in Norway (Poles, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and converts) with a high rate of practice. Second, I found the following from 2009:
Only 10 percent of Norwegians responding to the survey attend church once a month or more often … Norway’s state church, the country’s largest, attracts only 100,000 persons every Sunday. That amounts to just 2 percent of the population and 2.6 percent of total church members.
http://www.newsinenglish.no/2009/09/30/church-attendance-hits-new-low/
So it is low but not as low as stated.