More than half of people in England and Wales no longer identify as Christian in a Census from 2021.

The number of Christians in England and Wales has fallen below half for the first time.The 2021 Census from the Office for National Statistics has shown the decrease from 59.3% in 2011 to 46.2%.People who said they weren't religious at all increased to 37.2%, while those identifying as Muslim rose from 4.9% in 2011 to 6.5% in 2021.While Bishop Stephen Cottrell said the church will continue to do its work in the face of "revival and decline", Andrew Copson chief executive of Humanists UK, stated: "These results confirm that the biggest demographic change in England and Wales of the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of the non-religious.

"They mean the UK is almost certainly one of the least religious countries on Earth."

However, Professor Linda Woodhead from King's College London, said: "Some will be atheist, a lot will be agnostic - they just say, 'I don't really know' - and some will be spiritual and be doing spiritual things."The Census also found that  81.7% of people in England and Wales identified as White. This is a decrease from the 86.0% in 2011.

Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh make up 9.3% of the overall population, equating to 5.5 million people. This is an increase from 4.2 million.

People who identified as Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African made up 2.5% of the population - increasing from 1.8%.

One in ten households in England and Wales also have people from two or more ethnic groups, increasing from the previous 8.7%.