According to a Pew Global Attitudes survey, 31% of the Chinese public considers religion to be very or somewhat important in their lives, compared with only 11% who say religion is not at all important.
The number of people who say they are unaffiliated with any particular faith today (16.1%) is more than double the number who say they were not affiliated with any particular religion as children.
One-quarter of all adult Americans under age 30 (25%) are not affiliated with any particular religion, which is more than three times the number of unaffiliated adults ages 70 and older (8%).
Only about one-in-eight Americans describe themselves as atheist, agnostic or unaffiliated with a religious tradition, though the number has risen from the 8% who said so in 1987.
That’s the percentage of Republicans expressing strong religious commitment in the latest Pew Values survey, a higher number than at any time in the past 20 years.