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This Pew Research Center study calculates Religious Diversity Index (RDI) scores for countries, territories and world regions based on the distribution of seven religious categories: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, adherents of all other religions (an umbrella category) and people with no religious affiliation. The underlying estimates of the size of religious populations were previously […]
Many religious “nones,” which include atheists and agnostics, hold religious and spiritual beliefs in the 22 countries studied. Read about belief in spirits and God, as well as differences by gender.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are still highly religious and conservative, but signs point to demographic and social change.
Quarterly Update A message from Pew Research Center President Michael Dimock · Subscribe ↗ Reflecting on our new Religious Landscape Study Dear Friends, I’m excited to share with you the latest findings from Pew Research Center’s newly published Religious Landscape Study (RLS). This extensive survey, conducted in 2007, 2014, and most recently in 2023-24, takes a deep […]
Pew Research Center has tracked trends in American religion since 2007 via the Religious Landscape Study (RLS) and since 2020 using the annual National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS). But the RLS and NPORS are hardly the only sources of survey data on religion in the United States. Among others, the General Social Survey (GSS) […]
In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have had especially large losses.
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.
Religious groups faced harassment in 192 of 198 countries and territories, matching a previous high from 2022.
48% of U.S. adults who are LGBT say they identify with a religion, describing themselves as Christian, Jewish, Muslim or an adherent of another religion.
Read about U.S. religious groups’ demographics – such as race/ethnicity, age, immigrant status, gender and sexual orientation – and their trends since 2007. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center.
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