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Relative to its own populations, Zuckerman ranks the top 5 countries with the highest possible ranges of agnostics and atheists: Sweden (46–85%), Vietnam (81%), Denmark (43–80%), Norway (31–72%), and Japan (64–65%). [8][9] A 2023 Gallup International survey found that Sweden was the country with the highest percentage of citizens that ...
Religion. Faith. Theocracy. Buddhism by country. Christianity by country (Catholic Church by country, Protestantism by country, Eastern Orthodoxy by country and Oriental Orthodoxy by country) Hinduism by country. Islam by country. Judaism by country or Jewish population by country. List of religious populations.
The table below is based on the global Gallup Poll in 2009 research which asked "Is religion important in your daily life?". Percentages for "yes" and "no" answers are listed below; they often do not add up to 100% because some answered "don't know" or did not answer.
The same poll touts China – with 61 percent "convinced atheists" – as the least religious country in the world followed by Hong Kong (a special administrative region within China), Japan and ...
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
According to a 2011 World Bank estimate, the population is approximately 176,000. The 2010 Population and Housing Census reports Roman Catholics account for approximately 61.1% of the population; Seventh-day Adventists, 10.4%; Pentecostals, 8.8%; evangelicals, 2.2%; Baptists, 2.1%; and Rastafarians, 2%.
The 2015 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. [60] In 2020, the World Religion Database estimated that the countries with the highest percentage of atheists were North Korea and Sweden. [61]
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [10] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.