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Increasing Share of U.S. Population Identifies as Nonreligious

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4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A growing number of Americans say they do not have a religious affiliation, according to a recent Pew survey. Today, roughly 30% of American adults are religiously unaffiliated, up from 19% in 2011. The study also found that while Christians are still in the majority, their share of the adult population declined by 12 percentage points over the same time period. We’ll talk with a Pew researcher and religion experts about the survey's findings and what they mean for organized religion and the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on forum, the number of Americans who say they belong to a church or mosque or synagogue is declining.

1:21.6

According to a recent Pew survey, roughly 30% of U.S. adults say they do not have a religious affiliation. That's up from

1:30.3

19% a decade ago. This hour, we talk with a Pew Researcher and religion experts about

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the survey findings and what they mean for organized religion in the country. And we want to hear from you.

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This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. According to a Pew Research Survey last month, the group

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commonly referred to as nuns, that's N-O-N-E-S, or people who are not religiously affiliated

2:13.9

or are atheists or agnostics. They now make up roughly 30% of the U.S. population.

2:20.3

To be clear, the majority of the U.S. still identifies as Christian, some 63%, but that's still a sharp decline from a decade ago when 75% self-identified as Christian.

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