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reportDec 15, 2025

Why some Americans have left Protestantism, while others stay or join

Find out why US adults who were raised Protestant stay in or leave the faith, and how they experienced religion as kids. Also discover why others join.
short readsJun 26, 2025

Globally, 1 in 10 adults under 55 have left their childhood religion

The share of people who retain their childhood religious identity in adulthood varies across religious categories.
reportJun 9, 2025

14. Religion in sub-Saharan Africa

Most people in sub-Saharan Africa are Christian. Christians and Muslims grew rapidly in number in the region from 2010 to 2020.
reportJun 9, 2025

11. Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean

Most people in the Latin America-Caribbean region are Christian. The region’s unaffiliated population grew rapidly since 2010.
short readsSep 16, 2025

How religious is your state?

Explore our interactive database to find how religious adults are in your state based on service attendance, prayer, belief in God, and importance of religion.
reportFeb 26, 2025

15. Religion, partisanship and ideology

Highly religious Americans tend to be Republican, while less religious adults lean Democratic. But this varies somewhat by race and ethnicity. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center.
data essayMar 11, 2026

Buddhism’s Recent Decline in East Asia

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.
short readsDec 2, 2025

Key facts about Black Americans and religion

Most Black Americans are Christian, though the share who identify as such has fallen since 2007.
reportFeb 26, 2025

3. Identifying with a religion because of culture, ethnicity or family background

Identifying with a group for reasons “aside from religion” – such as ethnically, culturally, or because of family background – is somewhat rare. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center.
datasetDec 19, 2025

Dataset: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022

This Pew Research Center study is a collection of data on government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in 198 countries and territories from 2007 to 2022, collected by human coding of more than a dozen publicly available, widely cited sources of information, including the U.S. Department of State’s annual reports on international […]

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Why some Americans have left Protestantism, while others stay or join

Globally, 1 in 10 adults under 55 have left their childhood religion

14. Religion in sub-Saharan Africa

11. Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean

How religious is your state?

Buddhism’s Recent Decline in East Asia

Key facts about Black Americans and religion

Dataset: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022

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