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Christianity is the most prevalent religion in the United States. Estimates from 2021 suggest that of the entire U.S. population (332 million) about 63% is Christian (210 million). [1] The majority of Christian Americans are Protestant Christians (140 million; 42%), though there are also significant numbers of American Roman ...
Learn about the history, demographics, and trends of Christianity in the United States, the country with the largest number of Christians worldwide. Explore data on religious identification, church infrastructure, and church finance by state, denomination, and metropolitan area.
17. okt. 2019 · Currently, 43% of U.S. adults identify with Protestantism, down from 51% in 2009. And one-in-five adults (20%) are Catholic, down from 23% in 2009. Meanwhile, all subsets of the religiously unaffiliated population – a group also known as religious “nones” – have seen their numbers swell.
- Generational ‘Snowball’
- Disaffiliation Among Older Adults
- Education, Politics and Geography Tied to Differences in Religious Switching
- Other Drivers of Change
Whatever the deeper causes, religious disaffiliation in the U.S. is being fueled by switching patterns that started “snowballing” from generation to generation in the 1990s. The core population of “nones” has an increasingly “sticky” identity as it rolls forward, and it is gaining a lot more people than it is shedding, in a dynamic that has a kind ...
The “snowballing” dynamic is being driven by an acceleration in switching among young Christians – those ages 15 to 29. People under 30 tend to grapple with identities of all kinds, and young adulthood is often a time of major change, when many people leave their parents’ household, start careers and form lasting romantic partnerships. But there is...
A closer look at the characteristics of adults who have left Christianity and are now religiously unaffiliated indicates that other traits – such as age, gender, education, political identity and region of residence – also are tied to disaffiliation. U.S. adults who have moved away from Christianity are younger, on average, than those who have rema...
Switching is the primary, but by no means the only, process causing religious change in the U.S. Populations can grow or shrink through a few other mechanisms. Patterns of religious transmission, migration and fertility explain some of the shift in the religious landscape in recent decades.
- Reem Nadeem
Today most Christians in the United States are Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, or Roman Catholic . Early Colonial era.
8. jul. 2021 · The report shows that seven in ten Americans identify as Christian, but the proportion of white Christians has declined by nearly one-third since 1996. It also reveals the religious diversity and demographics among different age groups, regions, and racial and ethnic groups.
13. sep. 2022 · Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of U.S. adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” If recent trends in religious switching continue, Christians could make up less than half of the U.S. population within a few decades.
