Every source, and whether we have actually read it.
We withdrew a clergy-burnout statistic that church literature had been repeating for years. The primary document did not contain it.
The figure was attributed to a Swedish state register study. We retrieved that study. It ranks no occupations at all — its results sit in a table appendix that is not separately published, and its own headline occupational findings are healthcare, animal care, pharmacy and security. Clergy do not appear.
The finding appears to originate in a report from twelve years earlier, circulating since as though it were current. It is unverified, not disproven — the numbers may sit in that unpublished appendix. So the entry carries a new status rather than disappearing, and nothing on this site rests on it.
The same audit corrected a misattributed co-author, a study cited under the title of a different book, a survey title paired with the wrong language's abbreviation, and a widely-repeated closure statistic that overstated what its source actually said.
What each status means
Verified at source
Confirmed at a secondary source; primary document not retrieved
Primary document retrieved; it does not contain the figure attributed to it. No claim on this site rests on this source.
| 01 | Svenska kyrkan. "Svenska kyrkans medlemsutveckling 1972–2024." Accessed August 28, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 02 | Bromander, Jonas. "Långsiktig projektion av Svenska kyrkans medlemsutveckling." Svenska kyrkan. Accessed August 28, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 03 | Hagevi, Magnus. "Sakralisering efter sekularisering? Religiös förändring över tid och mellan generationer." In I rörelse, 65–80. Göteborg: SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet, 2025. | Verified at source |
| 04 | Försäkringskassan. Sjukfrånvaro i psykiatriska diagnoser: En registerstudie av Sveriges arbetande befolkning i åldern 20–69 år. Socialförsäkringsrapport 2020:8. Stockholm: Försäkringskassan, 2020. Accessed August 29, 2026. | Primary document retrieved; it does not contain the figure attributed to it. No claim on this site rests on this source. |
| 05 | Lidwall, Ulrik, Sofia Bill, Edward Palmer, and Christina Olsson Bohlin. Sjukfrånvaro i psykiska diagnoser: En studie av Sveriges befolkning 16–64 år. Socialförsäkringsrapport 2014:4. Stockholm: Försäkringskassan, 2014. Accessed August 29, 2026. | Confirmed at a secondary source; primary document not retrieved |
| 06 | Kyrkans Akademikerförbund. "Präster och diakoner löper störst risk att drabbas av stressrelaterad ohälsa och utmattningssyndrom." March 1, 2023. Accessed August 29, 2026. | Primary document retrieved; it does not contain the figure attributed to it. No claim on this site rests on this source. |
| 07 | Gullberg, Anita. "Därför toppar kyrkan listan över psykisk ohälsa." Arbetsliv (Prevent), October 3, 2024. Accessed August 29, 2026. | Confirmed at a secondary source; primary document not retrieved |
| 08 | Tweedie, Fiona, and Liz Graveling Fox, with Charlotte Hobson and Elaine Farrow. ‘Lord, for the Years’: Clergy Wellbeing 2017–2025. Living Ministry Panel Survey Wave 5. London: Church of England, December 2025. | Verified at source |
| 09 | Paas, Stefan. "A Case Study of Church Growth by Church Planting in Germany: Are They Connected?" International Bulletin of Mission Research 42, no. 1 (January 2018): 40–54. | Verified at source |
| 10 | Paas, Stefan, and Alrik Vos. "Church Planting and Church Growth in Western Europe: An Analysis." International Bulletin of Mission Research 40, no. 3 (July 2016): 243–252. | Verified at source |
| 11 | Paas, Stefan. Church Planting in the Secular West: Learning from the European Experience. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016. | Verified at source |
| 12 | Sveriges Frikyrkosamråd. Frikyrkoundersökningen. Reported in Dagen, "Fortsatt nedgång för frikyrkorna enligt Frikyrkoundersökningen." Accessed August 28, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 13 | "Antalet frivilliga i Svenska kyrkan har halverats på fyra år." Dagen, November 27, 2024. Reporting research by Sara Fransson. | Verified at source |
| 14 | Fransson, Sara, Jonas Bromander, and Johan von Essen. Av fri vilja på fri tid: ideellt arbete i Svenska kyrkans barn- och ungdomsverksamhet på 2020-talet. Uppsala: Svenska kyrkan, 2021. | Verified at source |
| 15 | Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. "Evangelische Kirche veröffentlicht Mitgliedszahlen für das Jahr 2025." March 16, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 16 | Forschungsgruppe Weltanschauungen in Deutschland. "Kirchenmitglieder Ende 2025: 43,8 Prozent." Accessed August 28, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 17 | Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. Kirche im Umbruch: Zwischen demografischem Wandel und nachlassender Kirchenverbundenheit. Projection by the Forschungszentrum Generationenverträge, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, under the direction of Bernd Raffelhüschen. Hannover: EKD, May 2019. | Verified at source |
| 18 | Pew Research Center. How the Global Religious Landscape Changed from 2010 to 2020, "Religion in Europe." Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, June 9, 2025. | Verified at source |
| 19 | Pew Research Center. "Has There Been a Christian Revival among Young Adults in the UK? Recent Surveys May Be Misleading." January 23, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 20 | "Bible Society Says That Its Quiet Revival Report Was Based on a 'Faulty' Survey." Church Times, March 26, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 21 | "UK's Bible Society on the Defensive after Retracting Report on Revival." Religion News Service, April 1, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 22 | Conférence des évêques de France. "Enquête du catéchuménat 2026: les baptêmes adultes et adolescents en chiffres." Accessed August 28, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 23 | Bundesamt für Statistik. Religion und Spiritualität in der Schweiz: Ergebnisse der Erhebung zur Sprache, Religion und Kultur 2024. BFS-Nummer 1368-2400. Neuchâtel: BFS, June 23, 2025. | Verified at source |
| 24 | National Churches Trust. The National Churches Survey: Giving Every Church a Voice. London: National Churches Trust, October 2025. | Verified at source |
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| 26 | Gloo, and Barna Group. "Majority of Pastors Use AI in Ministry amid Concerns and Caution, New Research Finds." June 16, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 27 | Church of England. Statistics for Mission 2024. London: Church of England Data Services, October 2025. | Verified at source |
| 28 | Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor. "Trossamfund: antal betjänade." Accessed August 28, 2026. | Verified at source |
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| 30 | Lemos, Carlos, and Ivan Puga-Gonzalez. "Belief in God, Confidence in the Church and Secularization in Scandinavia." Secularism and Nonreligion 10, no. 1 (2021): 5. | Verified at source |
| 31 | Center for the Study of Global Christianity. Status of Global Christianity, 2026. South Hamilton, MA: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 32 | Den norske kirke. "Flere innom kirken i 2025." Accessed August 28, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 33 | Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko. "Kirkkoon liittyneiden määrä jatkaa nousuaan." February 5, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 34 | Folkekirken. "Medlemmer af folkekirken." Accessed August 28, 2026. | Verified at source |
| 35 | Svenska kyrkan. Nyckeln till Svenska kyrkan 2025, kap. 6. Uppsala: Svenska kyrkan, 2025. | Verified at source |
| 36 | Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor. Så tycker unga 2025: hälsa, fritid och framtid. Stockholm: MUCF, May 14, 2025. | Verified at source |
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| 39 | Curtice, John. "No Revival in Sight: Church Attendance in Britain Remains below Pre-Pandemic Levels." National Centre for Social Research, May 18, 2026. | Verified at source |
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