The global population of Buddhists shrank by roughly 5% between 2010 and 2020, the sole major religious group to decline.

Buddhism is the only major religion whose global population shrank between 2010 and 2020. Learn why it declined in East Asia, particularly in Japan and South Korea.

Pew Research Center associate director Conrad Hackett discussed the global decline in religion and its correlation with development at a Harvard Divinity School event on Monday. The talk — facilitated ...

A new report looks at the reasons for the decline based on qualitative interviews in Tokyo and Seoul. In addition to demographic decline, the erosion of faith between generations, the “pressures ...

The longer-term trend shows an even steeper drop—between 2007 and 2023-24, the share of adults in the Midwest who said they belonged to a religion declined from 83 percent to 69 percent, according to ...

35-country survey conducted from January 5 to May 22, 2024 Pew Research Center. 2025. “Spring 2024 Survey Data.” doi: 10.58094/dwf6-w702. Many religious “nones,” which include atheists and agnostics, ...

The latest Pew Research study finds Christianity remains stable after decades of decline, while the story for young adults ...

People who live in the American South continue to be more religious, on average, than residents of the Midwest, Northeast and West.

Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated, according to a new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population between ...

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