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Of the global atheist and non-religious population, 76% live in Asia and the Pacific, while the remainder reside in Europe (12%), North America (5%), Latin America and the Caribbean (4%), sub-Saharan Africa (2%) and the Middle East and North Africa (less than 1%). [10] The prevalence of atheism in Africa and South America typically falls below ...
According to reports from the WIN/Gallup International's (WIN/GIA) four global polls: in 2005, 77% were a religious person and 4% were "convinced atheists"; in 2012, 23% were not a religious person and 13% were "convinced atheists"; [2] in 2015, 22% were not a religious person and 11% were "convinced atheists"; [3] and in 2017, 25% were not a ...
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.
Today, there are chaplains who are Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu or like Callahan, of no religion at all. But for the most part, becoming a chaplain for atheists and the nonreligious still involves ...
Yet, 47% of atheists who live in those countries are still formally members of the national churches. [48] [pages needed] In much of East Asia, ritual behavior holds greater salience than belief. [4]: 31 China has state atheism and is a Leninist religious state, which maintains dominance over all other religions.
According to the 2014 General Sociological Survey, the number of atheists and agnostics in the U.S. grew over the previous 23 years. In 1991, only 2% identified as atheist, and 4% identified as agnostic; while in 2014, 3.1% identified as atheists, and 5% identified as agnostics. [8]
When asked, around a third (24%-34% in different years) answered they were "not religious", and another 8% as atheist. [46] Many of these identify/affiliate themselves with established religious groups and most believe in God. [45] [47] In one survey, 88% considered themselves as at least moderately spiritual. [44]
AtheistTV was the world's first atheism-dedicated television channel. [1] AtheistTV was founded by the American Atheists organisation, was announced on May 7, 2014, [2] and launched on July 29 the same year. [3] It was available through the Roku streaming network, as well as online through the American Atheists website.