Twenty-five years after the first nationally recognized same-sex marriages, nearly 40 places now allow them. But their prevalence varies, as do public attitudes.
Republicans are twice as likely as Democrats to call physician-assisted death morally wrong (48% vs. 23%).
Nine-in-ten Americans say having an affair is wrong. Republicans and Democrats differ sharply on the morality of abortion and homosexuality.
In many other surveyed countries, about half of adults or more see gambling as immoral. This includes 89% in Indonesia, 83% in India and 71% in Italy.
Abortion has long been a contentious issue in the United States, and it is one that sharply divides Americans along partisan, ideological and religious lines.
The global population of Buddhists shrank by roughly 5% between 2010 and 2020, the sole major religious group to decline.
Today, there are millions of Buddhists in the United States, including many who were born to Buddhist families and others who converted into the religion.
Buddhism is the only major religion whose global population shrank between 2010 and 2020. Learn why it declined in East Asia, particularly in Japan and South Korea.
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.
