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According to sociologists Ariela Keysar and Juhem Navarro-Rivera's 2013 review of numerous global studies on atheism, there are 450 to 500 million positive atheists and agnostics worldwide (7% of the world's population) with China alone accounting for 200 million of that demographic.
In 2020, the World Religion Database estimated that the countries with the highest percentage of atheists were North Korea and Sweden. [64] A 2023 Gallup International survey found that Sweden was the country with the highest percentage of citizens that stated they do not believe in God. [65]
China is considered to be a nation with a long history of humanism, secularism, and this-worldly thought since the time of Confucius, [17] [19] who stressed shisu (世俗 "being in the world"). Hu Shih stated in the 1920s that "China is a country without religion and the Chinese are a people who are not bound by religious superstitions." [20]
Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion, including agnostics and atheists, from Irreligion by country (as of 2020): [41] Nonreligious population by country as of 2010 [42] Czech Republic 78.4% North Korea 71.3% Estonia 60.2% Hong Kong 54.7% China 51.8% New Zealand 48.2% [43] South Korea 46.6% Latvia 45.3%
A survey held in 2012 by WIN/GIA found that in China the atheists comprise 47% of the population. [100] Yu Tao's survey of the year 2008 provided a detailed analysis of the social characteristics of the religious communities. [91]
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