---
title: "About Four-in-Ten Asian Americans Are Christian"
description: "A plurality of Asian Americans say they are Christians, though Asian Americans are more religiously diverse than the U.S. population as a whole"
date: "2012-07-25"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2012/07/25/about-four-in-ten-asian-americans-are-christian/"
---

# About Four-in-Ten Asian Americans Are Christian

About four-in-ten Asian Americans are Christian (42%), including 22% who are Protestant and a slightly smaller percentage who are Catholic (19%).

According to a recent report by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, about a quarter (26%) of Asian Americans are unaffiliated (atheist, agnostic or nothing in particular). Roughly one-in-seven Asian Americans are Buddhist (14%) and one-in-ten are Hindu (10%). The remainder consists of Muslims, Sikhs, Jains and followers of numerous other faiths.

Asian Americans are more religiously diverse than the U.S. population as a whole, which is overwhelmingly Christian (75%). There also are substantial differences in religious affiliation among the largest subgroups of Asian Americans by country of origin. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/Asian-Americans-A-Mosaic-of-Faiths-overview.aspx)