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and in the United States by state, asking the degree to which respondents consider themselves to be religious. The Pew Research Center and Public Religion Research Institute have conducted studies of reported frequency of attendance to religious service. [2] The Harris Poll has conducted surveys of the percentage of people who believe in God. [3]
Regional distribution of U.S. Catholics (as a percentage of the total U.S. Catholic population) is as follows: Northeast, 24%; Midwest, 19%; South, 32% (a percentage that has increased in recent years due to a growing number of Catholics mainly in Texas, Louisiana, and Florida, with the rest of the Southern states remaining overwhelmingly ...
This report states that the percentage of the population in Brazil of Catholic religion, over the age of 16 years, is just 57%, [21] in contrast to the 64.63% published by CIA and to the 68.6% of Pew Research Center. Also, the 2010 Mexican Census showed this percentage to be 83.9% [22] – against a 91.89% number in the CIA World Factbook.
Religious switching along with Hispanic immigration has significantly changed the religious profile of some states and regions. Between 1990 and 2008, the Catholic population proportion of the New England states fell from 50% to 36% and in New York fell from 44% to 37%, while it rose in California from 29% to 37% and in Texas from 23% to 32%.
Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany – 0.02 million [329] [330] Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands – 0.01 million [331] Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland – 0.01 million [332] Old Catholic Church of Austria – 0.005 million [333] Old Catholic Church of the Czech Republic – 0.003 million [334] Union of Scranton ...
All Protestant denominations accounted for 48.5% of the population, making Protestantism the most common form of Christianity in the country and the majority religion in general in the United States, while the Catholic Church by itself, at 22.7% of the population, is the largest individual denomination. [11]
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.
Roman Catholic bishops in the United States by state (50 C) A. Catholics from Alabama (1 C, 23 P) Catholics from Alaska (2 C, 6 P) ... Statistics; Cookie statement;