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Title: Top 50 Countries - With Highest % of Atheists / Agnostics / Nonbelievers Post by: jgarden on August 24, 2007, 04:26:40 PM Quote Top 50 Countries - With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics / Nonbelievers in God (Zuckerman, 2005) - nonbelievers in God refers to the existance of a "superior being" from any the world's major religions Country - % Atheist / Agnostic/ Nonbelievers in God ----------------------------------------------------- Sweden - 46 to 85% Vietnam - 81% Denmark - 43 to 80% Norway - 31 to 72% Japan - 64 to 65% Czech Republic - 54 to 61% Finland - 28 to 60% France - 43 to 54% South Korea - 30 to 52% Estonia - 49% Germany - 41 to 49% Russia - 24 to 48% Hungary - 32 to 46% Netherlands - 39 to 44% Britain - 31 to 44% Belgium - 42 to 43% Bulgaria - 34 to 40% Slovenia - 35 to 38% Israel - 15 to 37% Canada - 19 to 30% Latvia - 20 to 29% Slovakia - 10 to 28% Switzerland - 17 to 27% Austria - 18 to 26% Australia - 24 to 25% Taiwan - 24% Spain - 15 to 24% Iceland - 16 to 23% New Zealand - 20 to 22% Ukraine - 20% Belarus - 17% Greece - 16% North Korea -15% Italy - 6 to 15% Armenia - 14% China - 8 - 14%* Lithuania - 13% Singapore - 13% Uruguay - 12% Kazakhstan - 11 to 12% Mongolia - 9% Portugal - 4 to 9% USA - 3 to 9% Albania - 8% Argentina - 4 to 8% Kyrgyzstan - 7% Dominican Republic - 7% Cuba - 7%* Croatia - 7% http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=lis...8&vc=&fp_ip=CA - data for China, North Korea and Cuba was difficult to obtain - it would appear that Europe, the early birthplace of Christianity (Catholicism, Orthodoxism, Protestantism) has the highest concentration of atheists/agnostics and nonbelievers - in many cases the less affluent nations that have not been as "blessed" by God in terms of their standard of living tend to have a higher % of believers |