A recent Pew study puts the number of religiously unaffiliated people in the world at 16% http://www.pewforum.org/global-religious…
Because being religiously non-affiliated isn’t the same thing as being an atheist we need more data to make an informed judgment. Which is why I’m citing an another study, a world-wide study of over 50 000 people from 57 countries in which 13% described themselves as “convinced atheists”. So don’t believe the nonsense about atheists being as little as 2% of the world population, there are a lot of atheists in the world.http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2012…
less than 20 percent of the total world populationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism
Since conceptions of atheism vary, determining how many atheists exist in the world today is difficult.[23] According to one estimate, atheists make up about 2.3% of the world’s population, while a further 11.9% are nonreligious.[24] According to another, rates of self-reported atheism are among the highest in Western nations, again to varying degrees: United States (4%), Italy (7%), Spain (11%), Great Britain (17%), Germany (20%), and France (32%).[25] According to a 2012 report by the Pew Research Center, people describing themselves as “atheist” were 2% of the total population in the US, and within the religiously unaffiliated (or “no religion”) demographic, atheists made up 12%.[26] According to a 2012 global poll conducted by WIN/GIA, 13% of the participants say they are atheists.[27]
23 ^ a b c Zuckerman, Phil (2007). Martin, Michael T, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-521-60367-6. OL 22379448M. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
24 ^ “Worldwide Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-2005”. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005. Retrieved 2007-04-15.
2.3% Atheists: Persons professing atheism, skepticism, disbelief, or irreligion, including the militantly antireligious (opposed to all religion).
11.9% Nonreligious: Persons professing no religion, nonbelievers, agnostics, freethinkers, uninterested, or dereligionized secularists indifferent to all religion but not militantly so.
25 ^ a b “Religious Views and Beliefs Vary Greatly by Country, According to the Latest Financial Times/Harris Poll”. Financial Times/Harris Interactive. 20 December 2006. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
26 ^ Cary Funk, Greg Smith. “”Nones” on the Rise: One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation”. Pew Research Center. pp. 9, 42.
27 ^ “Religiosity and Atheism Index”. Zurich: WIN/GIA. 27 July 2012.
Virtually impossible to know but many European countries are possibilities.
But first discount the silly claims for Christian numbers!
The churches own figures show only 28% who claim to be Christian ever attend church in a year. Indeed if 28% ever tried to attend church on the same day, even working shifts, there is simply not enough churches!
But count the bars – in many places there is more space in the bars than the churches!
Count all the seats in every church in a town and compare that to the population and it is very unlikely to achieve even 5%!
This is true right through the Bible belt and in Salt Lake City!
Go on have the courage to count the seats!
Then try attending a service in each church and see how many of those seats are empty!
About one billion of the human apes on this planet are normal, also known as atheists. You can do the math to get the percentage.
Our numbers are growing rapidly. In Europe the churches are empty.
Religion will go extinct some day because idiotic fantasies can’t last forever.
Your 2nd question: Sweden is 80% atheist. There is something seriously wrong with the other 20%.
The National Academy of Sciences is 93% atheist. The other 7% disgrace their profession.
The idiots who put it at 2% are idiots. It’s much higher than that, at least 15% and it should be 100% because the god fantasy is obsolete.
Atheists are around 2% of the world’s population.
Sweden is the world’s most atheistic country, but if you include adherents to atheistic religions (such as Taoism and Buddhism), the Republic of Korea has the highest population.
If you take into account babies and very young children (since they don’t believe in any Gods/Goddesses or any religion) plus all people pretending to be religious… I’d say about 50% of the world’s population are atheists.
Country with the highest percent of atheist people would probably be North Korea?
A recent Pew study puts the number of religiously unaffiliated people in the world at 16% http://www.pewforum.org/global-religious…
Because being religiously non-affiliated isn’t the same thing as being an atheist we need more data to make an informed judgment. Which is why I’m citing an another study, a world-wide study of over 50 000 people from 57 countries in which 13% described themselves as “convinced atheists”. So don’t believe the nonsense about atheists being as little as 2% of the world population, there are a lot of atheists in the world.http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2012…
less than 20 percent of the total world populationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism
Since conceptions of atheism vary, determining how many atheists exist in the world today is difficult.[23] According to one estimate, atheists make up about 2.3% of the world’s population, while a further 11.9% are nonreligious.[24] According to another, rates of self-reported atheism are among the highest in Western nations, again to varying degrees: United States (4%), Italy (7%), Spain (11%), Great Britain (17%), Germany (20%), and France (32%).[25] According to a 2012 report by the Pew Research Center, people describing themselves as “atheist” were 2% of the total population in the US, and within the religiously unaffiliated (or “no religion”) demographic, atheists made up 12%.[26] According to a 2012 global poll conducted by WIN/GIA, 13% of the participants say they are atheists.[27]
23 ^ a b c Zuckerman, Phil (2007). Martin, Michael T, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-521-60367-6. OL 22379448M. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
24 ^ “Worldwide Adherents of All Religions by Six Continental Areas, Mid-2005”. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005. Retrieved 2007-04-15.
2.3% Atheists: Persons professing atheism, skepticism, disbelief, or irreligion, including the militantly antireligious (opposed to all religion).
11.9% Nonreligious: Persons professing no religion, nonbelievers, agnostics, freethinkers, uninterested, or dereligionized secularists indifferent to all religion but not militantly so.
25 ^ a b “Religious Views and Beliefs Vary Greatly by Country, According to the Latest Financial Times/Harris Poll”. Financial Times/Harris Interactive. 20 December 2006. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
26 ^ Cary Funk, Greg Smith. “”Nones” on the Rise: One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation”. Pew Research Center. pp. 9, 42.
27 ^ “Religiosity and Atheism Index”. Zurich: WIN/GIA. 27 July 2012.
Virtually impossible to know but many European countries are possibilities.
But first discount the silly claims for Christian numbers!
The churches own figures show only 28% who claim to be Christian ever attend church in a year. Indeed if 28% ever tried to attend church on the same day, even working shifts, there is simply not enough churches!
But count the bars – in many places there is more space in the bars than the churches!
Count all the seats in every church in a town and compare that to the population and it is very unlikely to achieve even 5%!
This is true right through the Bible belt and in Salt Lake City!
Go on have the courage to count the seats!
Then try attending a service in each church and see how many of those seats are empty!
About one billion of the human apes on this planet are normal, also known as atheists. You can do the math to get the percentage.
Our numbers are growing rapidly. In Europe the churches are empty.
Religion will go extinct some day because idiotic fantasies can’t last forever.
Your 2nd question: Sweden is 80% atheist. There is something seriously wrong with the other 20%.
The National Academy of Sciences is 93% atheist. The other 7% disgrace their profession.
The idiots who put it at 2% are idiots. It’s much higher than that, at least 15% and it should be 100% because the god fantasy is obsolete.
Atheists are around 2% of the world’s population.
Sweden is the world’s most atheistic country, but if you include adherents to atheistic religions (such as Taoism and Buddhism), the Republic of Korea has the highest population.
If you take into account babies and very young children (since they don’t believe in any Gods/Goddesses or any religion) plus all people pretending to be religious… I’d say about 50% of the world’s population are atheists.
Country with the highest percent of atheist people would probably be North Korea?
65-70% in Europe are now atheists, but probably China is #1.
AS of 2010, they comprise 2.01% of the world population.
mostly in China I think.
lack of evidence is not evidence