Age distribution among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by age group

% of adults who believe in God with absolute certainty who are ages…

Religious denomination18-2930-4950-6465+Sample size
African Methodist Episcopal Church17%34%23%25%101
American Baptist Churches USA19%27%34%20%370
Assemblies of God13%32%31%24%414
Church of God in Christ21%35%30%14%150
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints21%38%24%16%549
Churches of Christ19%31%28%22%411
Episcopal Church12%22%32%34%276
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)8%25%34%33%446
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)15%33%33%18%708
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)16%40%35%8%178
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod9%30%29%33%366
National Baptist Convention12%30%34%24%422
Nondenominational charismatic24%32%33%10%168
Nondenominational evangelical20%39%30%10%622
Nothing in particular (religion important)29%39%24%8%1,125
Nothing in particular (religion not important)23%43%25%10%516
Presbyterian Church (USA)4%21%35%41%286
Presbyterian Church in America7%21%35%38%118
Seventh-day Adventist26%37%18%20%142
Southern Baptist Convention12%28%33%27%1,636
United Church of Christ15%17%36%32%131
United Methodist Church8%27%32%33%1,148
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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