Gender composition by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination by gender

% of adults who are…

Religious denominationMenWomenSample size
African Methodist Episcopal Church40%60%117
American Baptist Churches USA40%60%467
Anglican Church44%56%111
Assemblies of God43%57%460
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)41%59%111
Church of God in Christ44%56%165
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints46%54%641
Church of the Nazarene49%51%101
Churches of Christ40%60%498
Episcopal Church45%55%494
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)44%56%641
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)48%52%825
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)38%62%206
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.)47%53%139
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod47%53%459
National Baptist Convention39%61%462
Nondenominational charismatic39%61%187
Nondenominational evangelical47%53%684
Nondenominational fundamentalist61%39%107
Nothing in particular (religion important)51%49%2,015
Nothing in particular (religion not important)55%45%2,969
Presbyterian Church (USA)45%55%428
Presbyterian Church in America52%48%158
Seventh-day Adventist46%54%165
Southern Baptist Convention49%51%1,845
Spiritual but not religious53%47%128
Unitarian38%62%165
United Church of Christ38%62%227
United Methodist Church44%56%1,637
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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