The two State Churches (Lutheran/Reform and Roman Catholic) continue to drop in membership number.

In our state of Lower Saxony the number have dropped from 66.5% (2010) to 57.4% (2020).

440,000 members exited the State Churches in 2020. About that meaning also died for a total of 884,000 members lost in one year.

The number of members who attend church has also dropped and in our area it is only about 3% of the members.

Source: IDEA, 29.2021, pp.6-7.