The US is less religious than Africa, South America or the Middle East but more religious than pretty much everywhere else. IIRC there’s an absurdly large percentage of Americans who says they would never vote for an atheist president—higher than for any other group of people they asked the question about.
The US is less religious than Africa, South America or the Middle East but more religious than pretty much everywhere else.
You forgot tiny irrelevant places like Indonesia, Bangladesh and India. Your statement only works if you define “pretty much everywhere” else as Europe and East Asian, about 2.5 billion people, a lot but not the majority on our world of 7 billion. Oh sure there are a few demographically irrelevant pockets in addition to that like say Australia or Canada, but thinking a bit about them and adding their populations together one has a hard time matching just Indonesia.
The US is less religious than Africa, South America or the Middle East but more religious than pretty much everywhere else. IIRC there’s an absurdly large percentage of Americans who says they would never vote for an atheist president—higher than for any other group of people they asked the question about.
You forgot tiny irrelevant places like Indonesia, Bangladesh and India. Your statement only works if you define “pretty much everywhere” else as Europe and East Asian, about 2.5 billion people, a lot but not the majority on our world of 7 billion. Oh sure there are a few demographically irrelevant pockets in addition to that like say Australia or Canada, but thinking a bit about them and adding their populations together one has a hard time matching just Indonesia.
(I was initially going to type “southern Asia” instead of “Middle East”, which would have included those places too. Dunno why I switched.)