Statistics
The U.S. Census does not ask about religion. Various groups have conducted surveys to determine approximate percentages of those affiliated with each religious group. Some surveys ask people to self-identify, while others calculate church memberships. The first table below represents the ranges that have been found.
- Christianity: (59.9% to 78.4%)
- Unaffiliated, including atheist or agnostic (15.0% to 37.3%)
- Judaism (1.2% to 2.2%)
- Islam (0.6%)
- Buddhism (0.5% to 0.9%)
- Hinduism (0.4%)
- Other (1.2% to 1.4%)
| Affiliation | % of U.S. population | |
|---|---|---|
| Christian | 78.4 | 78.4 |
| Protestant | 51.3 | 51.3 |
| Evangelical Protestant | 26.3 | 26.3 |
| Mainline Protestant | 18.1 | 18.1 |
| Black church | 6.9 | 6.9 |
| Catholic | 23.9 | 23.9 |
| Mormon | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Eastern Orthodox | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Other Christian | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Unaffiliated | 16.1 | 16.1 |
| Nothing in particular | 12.1 | 12.1 |
| Agnostic | 2.4 | 2.4 |
| Atheist | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Non-Christian religions | 4.7 | 4.7 |
| Judaism | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| Buddhism | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Islam | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Hinduism | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Other | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Don't know/refused answer | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
Read more about this topic: Religion In The United States
Famous quotes containing the word statistics:
“Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about “character issues.” Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)