More than 1 in 4 American adults identify as “religious nones,” meaning they consider themselves to be “atheist,” “agnostic” or “nothing in particular,” according to a report from the Pew Research Center released Wednesday.
According to the new set of data, 28% of Americans classify themselves as “nones,” 17% of whom identify as atheist, 20% as agnostic and 63% as “nothing in particular.” Most “nones” said they were raised to be religious, and the majority were raised in Christian households.
The data was mostly based on a Pew Research Center survey of 11,201 respondents that was conducted over the course of a week last summer. The report also drew on a few other surveys conducted in recent years and on Pew’s National Public Opinion Reference Surveys.
“When asked directly why they are not religious, two-thirds of ‘nones’ say they question a lot of religious teachings or don’t believe in God,” the report said.
For comparison: In 2022, 25% of Germans were members of the Roman-Catholic church, 23% were protestants. About 4% were other Christians. In Between 2019 and 2021, 3–7% were Muslims (depending on the survey). All other denominations sum to less than 1%, leaving some 40% without confession.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religionen_in_Deutschland
Note that these numbers are from different censuses in different years, and all are rounded, so they don’t add up to 100%.