RE: What's the official statistic for Atheists in the population?
January 20, 2015 at 7:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2015 at 7:19 pm by TheRealJoeFish.)
(January 20, 2015 at 7:03 pm)IanHulett Wrote: Hey guys. I've heard it's around 20%, but some sites say 6%, others say 1.7, etc. What's the official statistics for Atheists in the population as of late? Thanks a bunch.
United States data, from Census.gov's 2012 Statistical Abstract
To summarize, if I'm reading this correctly, in the 2010 Census about 34.2 million adults identified as "Atheist", "Agnostic", "No Religion", or "Humanist. Out of a total of about 228.2 million adults in the US, that works out to 15.0%.
It's worth noting that only .7% explicitly chose "Atheist" (and only another .9% chose "Agnostic"); the vast majority of, we'll call them, non-religious respondents chose "No Religion" (13.3%).
Do note that this aggregated number (15%) is up from 14.2% in 2000 and 8.2% in 1990.
Also, another 5% or so refused to answer the question.
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