- Feb 2009 CUNY ARIS, 12.3% atheist + agnostic
- Apr 2008 Harris, 28% "not religious", 14% "not at all religious" [table 6]
- Nov. 2007 Harris, 18% atheists + agnostics (82% believe in God)
- Nov 2007 various by Zuckerman and Paul, "America's disbelievers...number 30 million, ...far outnumber American Jews, Muslims and Mormons combined."
- Aug 2007 Pew, nonreligious: 16.1%, with 4% atheist + agnostic and 12.1% generally unaffiliated
- Mar 2007 Newsweek, 10% "no religion", 6% atheist + agnostic
- 1972-2006 GSS Data, 14.4% "not religious" [here], 6.1% atheist [here]
- Dec 2006 Harris, 14% agnostic, 4% atheist, 6% "would prefer not to say"
- Sept 2006 Baylor U., 10.8% "religious nones," 5.2% atheists
- 2005 Adherents.com global data, 16% of people globally are atheist, agnostic, or related
- May 2004 Pew, 16% "unaffiliated", 7.5% "secular" and 3.2% "atheist, agnostic"
- Dec 2001 CUNY ARIS, "no religion" 8% in 1990, 14% in 2001. 14.3 million in 1990, 29.4 million in 2001 (more here)
Monday, March 9, 2009
Atheism statistics
This post will serve solely as a reference. For more analysis/opinion see all posts tagged "social analysis".
