Friday, March 2, 2007

Atheists and Agnostics

 
Here's a list of various countries with the percentage of atheists + agnostics. In most cases the total comes from the number who self-identify as people who do not believe in God. The number who feel comfortable labeling themselves as atheists is usually about 1/4 of the total.

The data is mostly from ...
Zuckerman, P. (2005) "Atheism: Contemporary Rates and Patterns ", chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed. by Michael Martin, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK

Greeley, A. (2003) Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millennium. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers
It is summarized on the Adherent Statistics website.

 Australia
Canada
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Israel
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
25%
19%
54%
48%
35%
37%
18%
43%
41%
8%
35%
0%
18%
46%
44%
4%
 Norris and Inglehart (2004)
Bibby (2002)
Greeley (2003)
Greeley (2003)
Greeley (2003)
Kedem (1995)
Greeley (2003)
Greeley (2003)
Greeley (2003)
Greeley (2003)
Froese (2004)
Zuckerman (2005)
Greeley (2003)
Greeley (2003)
Zuckerman (2005)
Encyclopedia Britannica

No comments:

Post a Comment