Demographics on Forumosa: religion

At this moment, atheist is the largest group. Is this consistent with other demographics?

It’s certainly consistent with the trend of the world at large. Atheism is on the up and faith is on the decline.

According to Wikipedia

A 2004 survey by the BBC in 10 countries showed the proportion of the population “who don’t believe in God” to be close to 17% in the countries surveyed, however, 8% of the respondents specifically stated that they consider themselves to be “atheists”.

The above is more than 10 years ago, but from 8% to 35% is a great increase.

A survey based on a self-selected sample of biological and physical scientists of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States found that 7% believed in the existence of God, 72.2% did not, and 20.8% were agnostic or had doubts

At the moment, the largest group in the occupation demographics is STE(M) people, so this may be consistent.

Not true. The Western world, yes.

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Oops. I must have misread. What of the rest of the world? Roughly the same or going up/down?

In general, populations are going up there compared to the West, and they are still predominantly religious countries. So overall the % of religious people overall should keep rising

It is, if your compare it to every single other option in the questionnaire. And the more religions we add, the bigger the difference.
To be fair, your should compare Atheist votes with all other options votes combined (maybe excluding others), or change the question to “Do you believe in any deity? Yes or No?”

Those of you who clicked “other”–what are you? Which religions did the poll miss?

I’m close to apatheist.

If here are Japanese people, Shinto was missed?