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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 ...
Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion, including agnostics and atheists, from Irreligion by country (as of 2020): [42] Nonreligious population by country as of 2010 [43] Czech Republic 78.4% North Korea 71.3% Estonia 60.2% Hong Kong 54.7% China 51.8% New Zealand 48.2% [44] South Korea 46.6% Latvia 45.3%
In 2020, the World Religion Database estimated that the countries with the highest percentage of atheists were North Korea and Sweden. [63] A 2023 Gallup International survey found that Sweden was the country with the highest percentage of citizens that stated they do not believe in God.
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
Category: Atheism by country. 18 languages. ... Atheism in the Soviet Union (5 P) U. Atheism in the United Kingdom (1 C, 16 P) Atheism in the United States (2 C, 39 P)
According to the Ministry of Cults and Religion, the Mahayana school of Buddhism has approximately 19,550 followers and has 167 temples throughout the country. Approximately 2.4% of the population, predominantly ethnic Chams, is Muslim, typically living in towns and rural fishing villages on the banks of the Tonle Sap Lake and the Mekong River ...
China is considered to be a nation with a long history of humanism, secularism, and this-worldly thought since the time of Confucius, [17] [19] who stressed shisu (世俗 "being in the world"). Hu Shih stated in the 1920s that "China is a country without religion and the Chinese are a people who are not bound by religious superstitions." [20]
The decline in belief was not confined to high-income countries and appeared across most of the world. [6] In virtually every high-income country, religion has continued to decline. [5]: 112 At the same time, many poor countries, together with most of the former communist states, have also become less religious.