Worldwide decline in religiosity it says here

[Rum]

An interesting poll with lots of stats (including the one posted elsewhere about the decline of religion in Ireland). The report is quite short and indicates a marked international decline in the irrational belief in religious bullshit. Worth a look!

http://redcresearch.ie/wp-content/uploa ... 5-7-12.pdf

[klr]

Downloaded for reading later.

[Coito ergo sum]

Was the UK not involved in that study?

[Clinton Huxley]

Read the paper and find out.

[Coito ergo sum]

Read the paper and find out.

It's by reading the paper, that I discerned that there was no mention of the UK or the separate constituent "kingdoms" of which said entity is constituted. My question sought confirmation that I hadn't missed something.

[Clinton Huxley]

Maybe UK religiousity was below the limit of quantification.

[Rum]

Well there's an email contact at the top of the report. I've just sent a message asking them if there is a reason and what it might be!

Will post the response here if I get one.

[Coito ergo sum]

Maybe UK religiousity was below the limit of quantification.

Have you read the article to find out?

[klr]

Interesting reading. Not only is there an inverse relationship between income and religiosity at the individual level, but also at the national level.

Russia is as about as religious as the USSR was in Stalin's hyeday in the mid-1930's, although the 1930's figure was obviously understated.

I'm surprised to see Brazil still so religious. Let's hope for a big change there as the country gets more prosperous.

[Blind groper]

Was the UK not involved in that study?

My country is not listed either.

There is another list, from Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance ... by_country

A different method of looking at it. Instead of 3 categories, they have two. Is religion important to you, yes or no?
The UK and New Zealand are on this list, but weirdly I cannot find China.

[SteveB]

Less than half of Canadians would call themselves religious.

Not bad, eh?

[Rum]

Was the UK not involved in that study?

My country is not listed either.

There is another list, from Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance ... by_country

A different method of looking at it. Instead of 3 categories, they have two. Is religion important to you, yes or no?
The UK and New Zealand are on this list, but weirdly I cannot find China.

There are only 57 countries listed. I have written to the contact person asking how they were chosen. Can't see an explanation in the body of the report though some of the criteria are listed.

[JimC]

Was Vatican City one of the countries?

[Azathoth]

Interesting. Right at the end it lists results by religion. Half of the people who list their religion as nothing are in the not religious category so you can confidently double the atheist category. The convinced atheist thing is badly worded. It should have been atheist or agnostic with "are you a convinced atheist?" being an extra question. So around 25% of the global population and rising. We are winning against the mind virus.

[FBM]

Go, Korea! 46% either not religious or convinced atheist!