Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The religious composition of the global population is always in flux. For example, the share of Buddhists worldwide is shrinking because of their low average fertility rate, and Christians are declining in the U.S. and Western Europe as more people leave organized religion. Demographers attribute changes in the size of religious populations to three main […]
Some Americans clearly long for a more avowedly religious and explicitly Christian country, a March survey finds. However, a clear majority of Americans do not accept these views.
Very liberal, highly educated and majority White; most say U.S. institutions need to be completely rebuilt because of racial bias Reflecting their name, Progressive Left have very liberal views across a range of issues – including the size and scope of government, foreign policy, immigration and race. A sizable majority (79%) describe their views as […]
Ahead of this year’s midterm elections, the Democratic Party is viewed more favorably than the Republican Party. And on several key issues, including the coronavirus, health care and education, more Americans say they agree with the policies of Democrats than Republicans. Still, many Americans are skeptical of both parties. For example, fewer than half of […]
The COVID-19 pandemic hit Hispanics hard economically and took a substantial toll on the physical and mental health of the population. Yet most now say the worst of COVID-19’s effects are behind us. And their views about and the country’s direction and the situation of Hispanics in the country have improved markedly since December 2019, […]
This study projects the future population sizes of Christians, religious “nones” and people of other religions in the United States. Since recent religious change in the U.S. has been driven primarily by voluntary changes in religious identity – religious switching – we modeled for the first time how the religious landscape could change in scenarios […]
Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of U.S. adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” If recent trends in religious switching continue, Christians could make up less than half of the U.S. population within a few decades.