Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Study: 3.0.0

Religious Landscape Study

Asian adults

Among Asian adults …

Religious composition

2023-24
2014
2007
Christians
of Asian adults identify as Christians.
  • Evangelical Protestant
    12%
    • Baptist family (evangelical trad.)
      3%
      • Southern Baptist Convention
        1%
      • Independent Baptist (evangelical trad.)
        2%
      • Missionary Baptist (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
      • Conservative Baptist Association of America
        <1%
      • Free Will Baptist
        <1%
      • General Association of Regular Baptist Churches
        <1%
      • Other Baptist (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
    • Methodist family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
      • Global Methodist Church
        <1%
      • Other Methodist (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
    • Nondenominational family (evangelical trad.)
      3%
      • Nondenominational evangelical
        1%
      • Nondenominational fundamentalist
        <1%
      • Nondenominational charismatic
        <1%
      • Interdenominational (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
      • Community Church (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
      • Other nondenominational (evangelical trad.)
        1%
    • Lutheran family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
      • Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
        <1%
      • Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
        <1%
      • Other Lutheran (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
    • Presbyterian family (evangelical trad.)
      1%
      • Presbyterian Church in America
        1%
      • Other Presbyterian (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
    • Pentecostal family (evangelical trad.)
      2%
      • Assemblies of God
        1%
      • Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
        <1%
      • Foursquare Church
        <1%
      • Pentecostal Church of God
        <1%
      • Pentecostal Holiness Church
        <1%
      • Calvary Chapel
        <1%
      • Apostolic Pentecostal (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
      • Nondenominational Pentecostal (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
      • United Pentecostal Church International
        <1%
      • Other Pentecostal (evangelical trad.)
        1%
    • Episcopalian/Anglican family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
    • Restorationist family (evangelical trad.)
      1%
      • Churches of Christ
        1%
      • Christian Churches and Churches of Christ
        <1%
      • Other Restorationist (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
    • Congregationalist family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
      • Conservative Congregational Christian Conference
        <1%
      • Other Congregationalist (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
    • Holiness family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
      • Church of the Nazarene
        <1%
      • Wesleyan Church
        <1%
      • Free Methodist Church
        <1%
      • Christian and Missionary Alliance
        <1%
      • Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)
        <1%
      • Other Holiness (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
    • Reformed family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
      • Christian Reformed Church
        <1%
      • Other Reformed (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
    • Adventist family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
      • Seventh-day Adventist
        <1%
      • Other Adventist (evangelical trad.)
        <1%
    • Anabaptist family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
    • Pietist family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
    • Friends family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
    • Other evangelical/Fundamentalist family (evangelical trad.)
      <1%
    • Nonspecific Protestant family (evangelical trad.)
      1%
      • Nonspecific/Other Protestant family (evangelical trad.)
        1%
  • Mainline Protestant
    6%
    • Baptist family (mainline trad.)
      1%
      • American Baptist Churches USA
        <1%
      • Other Baptist (mainline trad.)
        1%
    • Methodist family (mainline trad.)
      1%
      • United Methodist Church
        1%
      • Other Methodist (mainline trad.)
        <1%
    • Nondenominational family (mainline trad.)
      1%
      • Interdenominational (mainline trad.)
        1%
      • Other nondenominational (mainline trad.)
        <1%
    • Lutheran family (mainline trad.)
      <1%
      • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
        <1%
      • Other Lutheran (mainline trad.)
        <1%
    • Presbyterian family (mainline trad.)
      1%
      • Presbyterian Church (USA)
        1%
      • Other Presbyterian (mainline trad.)
        <1%
    • Episcopalian/Anglican family (mainline trad.)
      <1%
      • Episcopal Church
        <1%
      • Anglican Church
        <1%
      • Other Episcopalian/Anglican (mainline trad.)
        <1%
    • Restorationist family (mainline trad.)
      <1%
      • Disciples of Christ
        <1%
      • Other Restorationist (mainline trad.)
        <1%
    • Congregationalist family (mainline trad.)
      <1%
      • United Church of Christ
        <1%
      • Other Congregationalist (mainline trad.)
        <1%
    • Reformed family (mainline trad.)
      <1%
      • Reformed Church in America
        <1%
      • Other Reformed (mainline trad.)
        <1%
    • Anabaptist family (mainline trad.)
      <1%
    • Friends family (mainline trad.)
      <1%
    • Nonspecific Protestant family (mainline trad.)
      1%
      • Nonspecific/Other Protestant family (mainline trad.)
        1%
  • Historically Black Protestant
    <1%
    • Baptist family (historically Black Protestant trad.)
      <1%
      • National Baptist Convention of America
        <1%
      • National Baptist Convention, USA
        <1%
      • Progressive National Baptist Convention
        <1%
      • Independent Baptist (historically Black Protestant trad.)
        <1%
      • Missionary Baptist (historically Black Protestant trad.)
        <1%
      • Other Baptist (historically Black Protestant trad.)
        <1%
    • Methodist family (historically Black Protestant trad.)
      <1%
      • African Methodist Episcopal Church
        <1%
      • African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
        <1%
      • Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
        <1%
      • Other Methodist (historically Black Protestant trad.)
        <1%
    • Pentecostal family (historically Black Protestant trad.)
      <1%
      • Church of God in Christ
        <1%
      • Apostolic Pentecostal (historically Black Protestant trad.)
        <1%
      • Other Pentecostal (historically Black Protestant trad.)
        <1%
    • Holiness family (historically Black Protestant trad.)
      <1%
    • Nondenominational family (historically Black Protestant trad.)
      <1%
    • Nonspecific Protestant family (historically Black Protestant trad.)
      <1%
      • Nonspecific/Other Protestant family (historically Black Protestant trad.)
        <1%
  • Catholic
    14%
  • Latter-day Saint (Mormon)
    <1%
  • Orthodox Christian
    1%
  • Jehovah's Witness
    <1%
  • Other Christian
    <1%
    • Metaphysical family
      <1%
      • Spiritualist
        <1%
      • Unity Church
        <1%
      • Other metaphysical Christian ("Other Christian" trad.)
        <1%
    • Others in the "Other Christian" tradition
      <1%
Other religions
of Asian adults identify with other religions.
  • Jewish
    <1%
  • Muslim
    6%
  • Buddhist
    10%
  • Hindu
    13%
  • Other world religions
    1%
  • Something else
    1%
    • Unitarians and other liberal faiths
      1%
      • Unitarian
        <1%
      • Humanist
        <1%
      • Deist
        <1%
      • Spiritual but not religious
        <1%
      • Eclectic/A bit of everything/"I have my own beliefs"
        <1%
      • Other in the "Unitarian and other liberal faiths" family
        <1%
    • New Age
      <1%
      • Pagan or Wiccan
        <1%
      • Other in the New Age family
        <1%
    • Native American religions
      <1%
Religiously unaffiliated
of Asian adults identify as religiously unaffiliated.
  • Atheist
    7%
  • Agnostic
    6%
  • Nothing in particular
    20%

Note: 2% did not answer the question. Figures may not sum to 100% due to rounding.
Margin of error for 2023-24 figures based on Asian adults is ±3.6 percentage points.

Beliefs & practices

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Prayer frequency

Importance of religion

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Belief in God/universal spirit

Belief in heaven

Belief in hell

Belief in a soul or spirit

Belief in something spiritual beyond natural world

Importance of Bible

Reading scripture

Prayer groups

Feelings of spiritual well-being

Feelings of wonder

Feel presence of something from beyond this world

God-given right to use the Earth

God-given duty to protect the Earth

Consider self religious

Consider self spiritual

Childhood religious attendance

Importance of religion to family when growing up

Personal importance of religion as a child

Social & political views

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Abortion

Views about abortion among Asian adults*
% of Asian adults who say abortion should be …
Views about abortion by race/ethnicity (2023-24)
% of adults in each racial/ethnic group who say abortion should be …
Survey yearLegal in all/ most casesIllegal in all/ most casesNo answerUnweighted sample sizeMargin of error
2023-24*74%26%1%1,727±3.6 pct. pts.
Trend for comparison, with caution; read note
201462%34%4%937±4.1 pct. pts.
200761%34%6%773±4.0 pct. pts.
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Note: White, Black and Asian adults include those who report being only one race and are not Hispanic. Hispanics are of any race. The “other/multiracial” profile is not shown because it includes a variety of smaller groups that are not large enough to show, as well as respondents who write vague or unclear responses that are difficult to categorize; it is not a single racial or ethnic group in the same way other categories are.

Recommended citation: Pew Research Center. 2025. “2023-24 U.S. Religious Landscape Study Interactive Database.” doi: 10.58094/3zs9-jc14.