According to official statistics from January 2016, 76,9%[REF][REF] of the population of Denmark are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark (), the country's state church since the Reformation in Denmark-Norway and Holstein, and designated "the Danish people's church" by the 1848 Constitution of Denmark [REF].
This proportion is down by 0.9% as compared to the preceding year and 1.5% down compared to two years earlier.