Religion's Sudden Decline by Inglehart Ronald F

Author:Inglehart, Ronald F. [Inglehart, Ronald F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-12-01T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 7.7 Changing percentage saying they do not believe in God in 14 high-income countries, 1981–2020.

Source : Based on pooled data from 14 high-income countries for which data is available from the earliest, latest, and all or most other waves of Values Surveys, 1981–2020. Countries are Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, South Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, and West Germany.

As Figure 7.8 indicates, in 1982 only 2 percent of the American public said they did not believe in God, and as recently as 1999 only 4 percent said that. In the 2011 WVS the figure had risen to 11 percent, and in 2017 fully 22 percent of the American public said they did not believe in God—and among the youngest birth cohort, the figure was 32 percent. The trends in Figure 7.6 and Figure 7.7 move in the same direction but—though starting from a much lower base—the U.S. is changing more rapidly. In the 14 high-income countries, the proportion of nonbelievers roughly doubled from its 20th-century baseline to 2020, but in the U.S. the proportion of nonbelievers more than quadrupled.

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