Is religion declining? 1 in 4 worldwide now non-religious, becomes third-largest group as Christianity falls |
Between 2010 and 2020, the religiously unaffiliated grew by 270 million to 1.9 billion, rising to 24.2% of the global population. Nearly a quarter of the world’s population now identifies with no religion, according to the latest analysis from the Pew Research Center’s Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project. Drawing on more than 2,700 censuses and…