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World religion population percentage2/13/2024 The number of religiously unaffiliated adults increased by almost 30 million in the US over this period, indicating that the trend toward religious disaffiliation has continued. A total of 65 percent of American adults described themselves as Christian, down 12 percentage points over the past decade, and the share of the religiously unaffiliated population was 26 percent, up from 17 percent in 2009. Pew’s survey conducted in 20 updated the changes in the religious landscape of the US. The gap is also high in Australia (23 points), Japan (18 points), and Uruguay (18 points), according to Pew’s 2018 report. In South Korea 39 percent of younger adults are affiliated with a religious group, compared to 63 percent of their elders. The gap is even larger in Canada (28 points) and South Korea (24 points). In the US, the share of adults under age 40 who are religiously affiliated is lower by 17 percentage points than that of older adults who identify with a religious group. The rapid growth of the ‘nones’ has to do with the lower religious observance among younger adults, which is not only an American phenomenon, but also common across the globe. The rapid growth of the ‘nones’ has to do with the lower religious observance among younger adults. ![]() China, Japan, South Korea, and other densely-populated Asian countries face the challenges of secularization and religious disaffiliation. The natural increase of the unaffiliated in the Asia-Pacific between 2010 – 2015 was 16,850,000 out of the global total of 26,240,000. įurther, the Pew report states that the majority (75 percent) of the global unaffiliated population live in the Asia-Pacific, the percentage being much higher than those of Europe (12 percent) and North America (6 percent). According to the report, 62 percent of adults in the US expect the share of the population with no religion to increase. The global number of religious ‘nones’ however is predicted to grow rapidly in the coming decades. This outlook is based on the projection that by 2055-2060, only 9 percent of all babies will be born to religiously unaffiliated women, which contrasts with the 36 percent of Muslims and 35 percent of Christians. In another report released in 2017, Pew paid attention to the dearth of newborns among the unaffiliated, explaining why this group is expected to decline as a share of the world’s population in the long run despite the boost in number due to the switching in from Christianity and other religions in Europe, North America, and other parts of the world. īillion atheists, agnostics and nonreligious This exceeds even the estimated net increase of Muslims at 3,220,000 for the same period. The report also projected that the net increase of the unaffiliated population between 2010 – 2050 would be an additional 61,490,000, with 97,080,000 switching in and 35,590,000 switching out. A Pew report released in 2015 pointed out that in 2010 there were about 1.1 billion atheists, agnostics, and people who do not identify with any particular religion. ![]() Pew Research Center (hereafter Pew) has highlighted the growth of the nonreligious population in the world in approximately the past decade. ![]() How is this percentage projected to grow in the years ahead? What missiological theories can be applied in understanding the phenomenon of religious disaffiliation? What needs to be done to appropriately address these challenges in our lives? Such questions will be addressed below. The percentage of people who are not affiliated with any particular religion keeps growing in many parts of the world.
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