Nearly everyone in Indonesia, as well as the vast majority of people in Kenya, India and South Africa, say it’s necessary to believe in God to be moral.
Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.
People who live in the American South continue to be more religious, on average, than residents of the Midwest, Northeast and West.
Hindus and Jews are much more likely to have a four-year college degree than Americans in other religious groups.
Across 190 members of the United Nations we analyzed, the typical country will observe 13 public holidays in 2026.
Singapore is the most religiously diverse country, and Yemen the least, as of 2020. The U.S. ranks first among nations with large populations.
There has been an 8-percentage point drop since early 2025 in the share of White evangelicals who support all or most of Trump’s plans and policies.
See a profile of American religious beliefs and practices if the country were made up of exactly 100 adults.
Despite the widely recognized decline of Christianity in the U.K., there have been persistent rumblings of a Christian resurgence.
Growing numbers of Latin Americans are religiously unaffiliated, but belief in God remains high across the region.
