As of 2022, approximately 31 percent of Gen Z in the United Kingdom identified as being as atheist, compared with just 11 percent of the Pre-War Generation.

Data on atheist populations and gender ratios calculated from United Nations Statistics Division “Population by religion, sex and urban/rural residence” data (http://data.un.org, access date 21/03/2014).

According to the source, the percentage of atheists in Spain doubled within 11 years, increasing sharply from *** percent in January 2013 to roughly ** percent in May 2024.

In 2023, **** percent of Americans were unaffiliated with any religion. A further **** percent of Americans were White evangelical Protestants, and an additional **** percent were White mainline Protestants. Religious trends in the United States Although the United States is still home to the largest number of Christians worldwide, the nation has started to reflect a more diverse religious landscape in recent years. Americans now report a wide range of religious beliefs and backgrounds, in addition to an increasing number of people who are choosing to identify with no religion at all. Studies suggest that many Americans have left their previous religion to instead identify as atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular, with many reasoning that they stopped believing in the religion's teachings, that they didn't approve of negative teachings or treatment of LGBTQ+ people, or that their family was never that religious growing up. Christian controversies Over the last few years, controversies linked to Christian denominations have plagued the nation, including reports of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the Southern Baptist Convention. Christian churches have also been accused of supporting discriminatory actions against LGBTQ+ people and people belonging to other religious groups. In addition, there have been increasing concerns about Christian nationalism, the political ideology that asserts that America was founded to be a Christian nation. Although the majority of Americans still think that declaring the United States a Christian nation would go against the U.S. Constitution, studies found that most Republicans would be in favor of this change.

In the four-yearly Basque youth exercise, opinions and attitudes of young people in the Basque Country are analysed as regards issues such as family, work status, leisure and free time, the Basque language, sexuality, how they view their situation (personal and overall), their political attitudes, their religious beliefs and their social values and behaviour. We aim to use all of this information to perform an analysis of the situation of youth as viewed by young people themselves (aged between 15 and 29), complementing it, as far as possible, with external data to enrich the study. More information in the https://www.euskadi.eus/web01-s2enple/es/contenidos/informacion/juventud_vasca_oe_informacion/es_def/index.shtml departmental statistical portal.

In 1972, an estimated five percent of the population in the United States identified as religiously unaffiliated. By 2020, this number rose to ** percent, a phenomenon which may be attributed to recent trends where many Americans have left Christianity to instead identify as atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular. If these trends continue, the number of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated has been projected to reach ** percent by 2070.

Although the threat and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic has become a significant source of distress, using religion to cope may be associated with more positive health. Given the severity and chronicity of the pandemic, religious individuals may also have relied on a variety of non-religious coping methods. Much of the existing COVID-19 research overlooks the role of religious group membership and beliefs in relation to coping responses and associated mental health, with an additional lack of such research within the Canadian context. Thus, this cross-sectional study investigated relations among religiosity, stressor appraisals, (both religious and non-religious) coping strategies, mental and physical health in a religiously-diverse Canadian community sample (N = 280) during the pandemic’s 2nd wave from March to June 2021. Numerous differences were apparent in appraisal-coping methods and health across five (non)religious groups (i.e., Atheists, Agnostics, “Spiritual but not religious”, Christians, and those considered to be religious “Minorities” in Canada). Religiosity was also associated with better mental health, appraisals of the pandemic as a challenge from which one might learn or grow, and a greater reliance on problem-focused, emotional-engagement, and religious coping. Moreover, both problem-focused and emotional-engagement coping mediated the relations between religiosity and health. Taken together, this research has implications for individual-level coping as well as informing culturally-sensitive public health messages promoting targeted self-care recommendations with integrated religious or spiritual elements during times of threat and uncertainty, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Null Hypotheses (H-not/H0) :- Are religious people more happy, and does it contribute to a better experience of life? ----------------------AND in the same vein ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Is the increasing trend of Atheism directly related to increasing reported levels of ADHD, depression and suicide rates around the world?

The research :- A slew of research suggests that religious people are happier, are better at keeping family ties, contribute to society more by being involved in the community, report better life experience and are better able to cope with life's setbacks like Divorce. Is this true? Below is a random list of research I found from googling :-

(1) https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/more-mortal/201212/are-religious-people-happier-non-religious-people (2) https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/curious/201510/does-being-religious-make-us-happy (3) http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/02/02/office-for-national-statistics-well-being-data_n_9138076.html (4) https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/new-research-shows-religious-people-are-happier-than-atheists/ (5) https://www.christiantoday.com/article/why-religious-people-are-happier-and-how-to-share-the-joy/78581.htm (6) http://www.pewforum.org/2016/04/12/religion-in-everyday-life/

What the Quran says :- Having graduated from the London School of Economics (2004, Bsc Hons) and having been greatly influenced by Richard Dawkins, books like "The God Delusion" etc. for about 7 years and seeking extensively through the various religious/self development traditions including Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, The Landmark Forum and Tai Chi, I converted to Islam 4 years ago. I can personally attest to having a much greater experience of life and feeling peace and tranquility and calmness in my heart. In the Sufi tradition, the heart is the kernel of connecting to God (Allah), and the seat of God consciousness :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNPVP6GerM&index=1&list=PLwFLXkJiBtuza1uSJHsB8MJCfQ9l7h8jf

Allah says in the Quran :- "And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life,...." [Quran 20:124]

And Allah also says in the Quran :- "Those who have believed and whose hearts are assured by the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts are assured." [Quran 13:28]

Dataset :- The data set regarding population is the gross population by country taken from the World Bank Data Site, link here :- https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=US&view=chart

Can you :- Look at populations around the world using the dataset, and look at suicide levels, depression levels, reported ADHD levels, and anxiety levels and find a correlation between the increasing trend of atheism in the world and these reported markers.

According to the 2018 Census in New Zealand, the number of people reporting to not follow any religion totaled over **** million, continuing the trend of an increasing number of non-religious New Zealanders across the country. Of the population that were religious, the largest religious grouping was 'Christian' in that year.

In the four-year operation: Basque youth are analysed the opinions and attitudes of the youth of the Basque Country in relation to issues such as the family, the employment situation, leisure and leisure, Basque, sexuality, their assessment of the situation (personal and general), their political attitudes, their religiosity and their social behaviors and values. With all this, it is intended to carry out an analysis of the situation of young people from the perspective of young people (age 15-29), complementing it, as far as possible, with external data that contribute greater wealth to the study. More information on the https://www.euskadi.eus/web01-s2enple/es/contenidos/informacion/juventud_vasca_oe_informacion/es_def/index.shtml departmental statistical portal.

Demographics for full participant samples (i.e., excluding those who failed the attention check) in Studies 1–4.

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Census: Population: by Religion: Not Stated: Tamil Nadu data was reported at 188,586.000 Person in 03-01-2011. This records an increase from the previous number of 59,344.000 Person for 03-01-2001. Census: Population: by Religion: Not Stated: Tamil Nadu data is updated decadal, averaging 123,965.000 Person from Mar 2001 (Median) to 03-01-2011, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 188,586.000 Person in 03-01-2011 and a record low of 59,344.000 Person in 03-01-2001. Census: Population: by Religion: Not Stated: Tamil Nadu data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. The data is categorized under India Premium Database’s Demographic – Table IN.GAE009: Census: Population: by Religion: Not Stated.

According to a survey conducted in 2024, ** percent of Americans said that they would not vote for a presidential candidate who was atheist, and ** percent also said they would not vote for a presidential candidate who was Muslim in the United States. A further ** percent said that they would not vote for a candidate who was Hindu.

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Despite the importance of trend data for understanding key substantive and theoretical questions on American culture and religion, almost no such data exist. By searching the massive "https://books.google.com/" Target="_blank">Google Books collection, however, the "https://books.google.com/ngrams" Target="_blank">Google Ngram Viewer provides quantitative data on cultural and religious trends over time. The Ngram Viewer searches the entire collection of Google Books and reports on the number of times an Ngram is used annually in the books. Ngrams are most commonly words, but can be any given sequence of text. In an effort to democratize access to these trend data, the ARDA has created a dataset with more than 400 Ngram variables generated by the Ngram Viewer and more than 20 historical trend variables taken from the "https://hsus.cambridge.org/HSUSWeb/HSUSEntryServlet" Target="_blank">Historical Statistics of the United States and other sources. When available, we also included measures on education and clergy training.

The Ngram variables included in this file were generated by using both specific terms and composite data, where scales are created out of similar words (e.g., Atheist scale = atheist + Atheist + atheism + Atheism). These Ngram data were drawn from Google's American English corpus, which contains more than 3 million books. The Ngram variables were calculated as rates and can be interpreted as how often "xyz" is used, as a proportion of the total words in Google's American English Corpus. We would caution, however, that the Ngram data included in this file are based on very simple searches. The Ngram Viewer also allows users to customize measures by using a wildcard search, inflection search, case insensitive search, part-of-speech tags and ngram compositions. For many research projects, users will want to refine the searches to better provide the measure desired. See the "/categories/arda-papers/current-working-papers/reviewing-millions-of-books-charting-cultural-and-religious-trends-with-google-s-ngram-viewer" Target="_blank">Finke and McClure working paper for more details.

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