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Countries and territories with the greatest proportion of Christians from Christianity by country, as of 2010: Christian population percentage by country, June 2014 [5] Vatican City 100% (100% Roman Catholic) Pitcairn Islands 100% (100% Seventh-day Adventist) [6] East Timor 99.6% [7] (mostly Roman Catholic) Samoa ~99.0% (mostly Protestant) [8]
In 2010, the religiously unaffiliated number 1.1 billion (about one-in-six people or 16% of the 6.9 billion population at the time), according to Pew Research Center. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] : 24 This "include atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion in surveys"; of that overall category, many may still hold ...
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
Despite the decline in church attendance, Christianity remains the largest religion in Quebec, where 64.82% of people were Christians, according to 2021 census. [84] With the loss of Christianity's monopoly after having once been central and integral to Canadian culture and daily life, [87] Canada has become a post-Christian and secular state.
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
Today the country is 25% [86] to 32% [87] irreligious. The remaining population is made up evenly of both Christians and people who believe in a god or some form of spiritual life force, but are not involved in organized religion. [88] French society is still secular overall.
One religious leader estimates there are between 1,000 and 1,500 Egyptian Coptic Christians living in the country. There are no statistics on the number of religious conversions; however, according to the Minister of Religious Affairs, 150 foreigners converted to Islam and 50 citizens converted to Christianity in 2011.
According to public opinion polls, irreligion in Uruguay ranges from 30 [3] to 40 [4] to over 47 percent of the population. Uruguay has been the least-religious country in South America due to nineteenth-century political events influenced by positivism, secularism, and other beliefs held by intellectual Europeans. [5]