The proportion of Britons who practise a religion other than Christianity has risen fourfold in three decades, according to newly published statistics.

Whereas just two per cent of people in the UK professed a non-Christian faith in 1983, that figure stood at eight per cent in 2015.

Over the same period, allegiance to Christianity slid from 67 per cent in 1983 to 43 per cent last year, according to NatCen’s British Social Attitudes survey.

But those who said they had no religion rose from 31 per cent to 48 per cent in the same time period.

There were no figures for individual religions other than Christianity.

The number of those without religion reached its highest figure at 50 per cent in 2013, while Christianity hit its lowest in the same year at 41 per cent.