{"id":118691,"date":"2023-02-13T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T17:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=118691"},"modified":"2023-02-13T17:43:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:43:43","slug":"cp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=118691","title":{"rendered":"(CP) Average age of people in England, Wales identifying as Christian climbs above 50: census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average age of people who identify as Christian in England and Wales has topped 50, as most younger adults now identify as non-religious, according to new census data.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the median age of those identifying as Christian was 51, compared with 45 just a decade ago, according to a breakdown of religion by age and sex in England and Wales from the Office of National Statistics. <\/p>\n<p>That median age marked the oldest average age among most religious groups among these two U.K. countries.<\/p>\n<p>While in 2011 over two in 10 who identified as Christian were 65 or older, that number is now three in 10, while the percentage of those ages 21-25 who identify as Christian has declined from 5.1% to 3.9%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/over-half-of-welsh-age-45-and-younger-have-no-religious-identity.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Average age of people in England, Wales identifying as Christian climbs above 50: census <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/56NtoUGUE5\">https:\/\/t.co\/56NtoUGUE5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Christian Post (@ChristianPost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianPost\/status\/1624891240327294976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average age of people who identify as Christian in England and Wales has topped 50, as most younger adults now identify as non-religious, according to new census data. In 2021, the median age of those identifying as Christian was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=118691\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118695,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118691\/revisions\/118695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}