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The percentage declined steadily during the first two decades of the 21st century, reaching 47% in 2020. Gallup attributed the decline to increasing numbers of Americans expressing no religious preference. [285] [286] A 2013 Public Religion Research Institute survey reported that 31% of Americans attend religious services at least weekly. [287]
The following is the percentage of Christians and all religions in the U.S. territories as of 2015 (according to the ARDA): [62] Note that CIA World Factbook data differs from the data below. For example, the CIA World Factbook says that 99.3% of the population in American Samoa is religious. [63]
The Public Religion Research Institute's "2020 Census of American Religion", carried out between 2014 and 2020, showed that 70% of Americans identified as Christian during this seven-year interval. [3] In a 2020 survey by the Pew Research Center, 65% of adults in the United States identified themselves as Christians. [4]
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s.
In 1972, only 5% of Americans identified as atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular. Today, that figure is closer to 30%.
Religion has been a major influence on art, culture, philosophy and law of the continent. Between them, the United States, Mexico and Canada account for 85 percent of the population of North America. Religion in each of these countries is dominated by Christianity (77.4), [2] [3] making it the largest religious group in North America.
The percentage of Asian Americans who are religious has declined, with Christianity seeing the sharpest drop over the last decade
The Pew Religious Landscape survey reported that as of 2014, 22.8% of the American population is religiously unaffiliated, atheists made up 3.1% and agnostics made up 4% of the US population. [ 40 ] A 2010 Pew Research Center study comparing Millennials to other generations showed that of those between 18 and 29 years old, only 3% self ...