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Irreligion around the world
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|
Country
|
Percentage stating they have no religion
|
Source
|
|
China
|
59-71%
|
Various publications[2]
|
|
Sweden
|
46%-85%
|
Zuckerman, Phil. "Atheism: Contemporary Rates and
Patterns", chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed. by Michael
Martin, Cambridge University
Press: Cambridge, UK (2005)
|
|
Estonia
|
75.7%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Albania
|
60%
|
US Department of State - International Religious Freedom
Report 2006[4]
L'Albanie en 2005[5]
Various publications[6]
|
|
Czech Republic
|
59% (plus
additional 8% did not fill in anything)
|
Czech Statistical Office (2001 census)[7]
|
|
Japan
|
51.8%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Russia
|
48.1%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Belarus
|
47.8%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Vietnam
|
46.1%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Netherlands
|
44.0%
|
Social and Cultural Planning
Office[8]
|
|
Finland
|
28%-60%
|
Zuckerman, Phil. "Atheism: Contemporary Rates and
Patterns", chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed. by Michael
Martin, Cambridge University
Press: Cambridge, UK (2005)
|
|
Hungary
|
42.6%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Ukraine
|
42.4%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Latvia
|
40.6%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
South Korea
|
36.4%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Belgium
|
35.4%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
New Zealand
|
34.7% (of the
87.3% who answered an optional question)
|
Statistics New Zealand (2006 census)[9]
|
|
Chile
|
33.8%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Germany
|
32.7%
|
German Worldview Research Group (2004)[10]
|
|
Luxembourg
|
29.9%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Slovenia
|
29.9%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
France
|
27.2% (23.9%
of women, 30.6% of men)
|
INSEE
(2004 survey)[11]
|
|
Venezuela
|
27.0%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Slovakia
|
23.1%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Mexico
|
20.5%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Lithuania
|
19.4%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Denmark
|
19%
|
Eurobarometer(2005)[12]
|
|
Australia
|
18.7% (of the
88.8% who answered an optional question)
|
Australian Bureau of Statistics
(2006 census)[13]
|
|
Italy
|
17.8%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Spain
|
17%
|
Centre of Sociological Investigations (2005)[14]
|
|
United Kingdom
|
16.8% (of the
92.7% who answered an optional question)
|
UK National Statistics (2001
census)[15]
|
|
Canada
|
16.2%
|
Canada 2001 Census[16]
|
|
Argentina
|
16.0%
|
Gallup-Argentina poll, April 2001[17]
|
|
South Africa
|
15.1%
|
Statistics South Africa Census 2001[18]
|
|
United States
|
15.0% (of the
94.6% who answered an optional question, out of a sample of 50,281 households
in the 48 contiguous states)
|
American Religious Identification Survey (2001), as
reported by US Census Bureau [19]
|
|
Croatia
|
13.2%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Austria
|
12.2%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Portugal
|
11.4%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Puerto Rico
|
11.1%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Bulgaria
|
11.1%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Philippines
|
10.9%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Brazil
|
7.4%
|
National Demografic Census in 2000, conducted by the IBGE. [20]
|
|
India
|
6.6%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Poland
|
6%
|
Public Opinion Research Centre (2007)[21]
|
|
Serbia and Montenegro
|
5.8%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Ireland
|
4.5%
|
Central Statistics Office
Ireland Census 2006[22]
|
|
Peru
|
4.7%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Iceland
|
4.3%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Greece
|
4.0%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Turkey
|
2.5%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Romania
|
2.4%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Tanzania
|
1.7%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
|
Malta
|
1.3%
|
Dentsu Communication Institute Inc, Japan Research Center
(2006)[3]
|
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