Americans’ Religious Affiliations if the US Were 100 People

If the United States consisted of only 100 people, 62 of them would be people who self-identify as Christian, according to a new Pew Research Center study, based on the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study. Another 29 people would be religiously unaffiliated (atheists, agnostics, or people who identify religiously as “nothing in particular.”) And seven would identify with non-Christian religions, including Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

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Pew’s numbers breakdown as follows:

• 23 evangelical Protestants
• 19 Catholics
• 11 mainline Protestants
• 5 who identify with historically Black Protestant denominations
• 2 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (widely known as Mormons)
• 2 who identify with other Christian groups, including Jehovah’s Witnesses and many other small groups
• 2 would be Jewish
• 1 would be Muslim
• 1 would be Buddhist
• 1 would be Hindu
• 2 would represent a variety of other religions (Baha’is, Sikhs, Wiccans, etc.)
• 29 would be religiously unaffiliated. This group–sometimes called the religious “nones”–is made up of people who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular” when it comes to religion.

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In this hypothetical town, more Christians (35) would be ages 50 and older than under 50. Eighteen Christians would be in their 30s and 40s, while nine would be between ages 18 and 29.

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Pew says figures in the above chart may not add to subtotals indicated due to rounding. Pew included Mormons in the “Christian” category and Orthodox Christians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and smaller groups in the “Other Christian” category.

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