What percentage of the world is not religious?

16\%
According to Pew Research Center’s 2012 global study of 230 countries and territories, 16\% of the world’s population is not affiliated with a religion, while 84\% are affiliated.

What is the majority of religion in China?

The research and advocacy group Freedom House estimated in 2017 that there are more than 350 million religious believers in China, primarily made up of Chinese Buddhists, followed by Protestants, Muslims, Falun Gong practitioners, Catholics, and Tibetan Buddhists.

What’s the difference between non religious and atheist?

The term “atheist” doesn’t really mean anything different from the term “nonbeliever” (in gods). An atheist is merely someone who lacks belief in gods — a person who isn’t a theist. Atheism is the state of not having any belief in the existence of any gods.

What’s the leading religion in China?

Chinese Buddhism and Folk Religions Though Buddhism originated in India, it has a long history and tradition in China and today is the country’s largest institutionalized religion.

What percentage of the Chinese population are atheists?

Though China has state atheism, 85\% of the population practice various kinds of religious behaviors with some regularity. In the Netherlands, beliefs of “convinced atheists” are quite diverse: 41.1\% of them say they believe in telepathy, 21.1\% in reincarnation, 13.3\% in life after death, and 1.6\% in heaven.

What is the global prevalence of atheism?

Of the global atheist and non-religious population, 76\% reside in Asia and the Pacific, while the remainder reside in Europe (12\%), North America (5\%), Latin America and the Caribbean (4\%), sub-Saharan Africa (2\%) and the Middle East and North Africa (less than 1\%). The prevalence of atheism in Africa and South America typically falls below 10\%.

What percentage of people do not believe in a deity?

Even when people directly claim not to believe in a deity, they still do not self-identify as “atheist”. For instance, 41\% of Norwegians, 48\% of the French, and 54\% of Czechs claimed not to believe in a deity, but only 10\%, 19\%, and 20\% of those respondents, respectively, self-identified as “atheist”.

What percentage of the world’s population is non-religious?

A 2004 survey by the CIA in the World Factbook estimates about 12.5\% of the world’s population are non-religious, and about 2.4\% are atheists.