{"id":7815,"date":"2024-01-24T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:59:10","slug":"has-the-rise-of-religious-nones-come-to-an-end-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/01\/24\/has-the-rise-of-religious-nones-come-to-an-end-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the rise of religious \u2018nones\u2019 come to an end in the U.S.?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Pew Research Center\u2019s 2023 polling<\/a>, 28% of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated, describing themselves as atheists, agnostics or simply \u201cnothing in particular\u201d when asked about their religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s marginally lower than our surveys indicated in 2022 and 2021, and identical to what we found in 2020 and 2019, which raises a question: After decades of sharp growth<\/a>, has the rise of these religious \u201cnones\u201d ended?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the risk of sounding wishy-washy, we think it\u2019s too early to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The identical results we\u2019ve found in three of the last five years are a sign of stability in the size of this population. At the same time, in two of the last five years, we obtained readings above<\/em> 28%. In 2022, our estimate of 31% was 3 percentage points higher, while the 29% we recorded in 2021 was just 1 point higher. We haven\u2019t found any readings below<\/em> 28% in the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related: Religious \u2018Nones\u2019 in America: Who They Are and What They Believe<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

How we did this<\/div>