One-quarter of all adult Americans under age 30 (25%) are not affiliated with any particular religion, which is more than three times the number of unaffiliated adults ages 70 and older (8%).

More than one-quarter of American adults (28%) have left the faith in which they were raised in favor of another religion — or no religion at all.

If current trends continue, 82% of the projected 142 million people who will be added to the U.S. population by 2050 will be immigrants arriving between 2005 and 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants.

Nearly half of Americans now say that rising prices are their top personal economic concern; just 19% cite the job situation.

Republican dissatisfaction with the country’s overall direction has risen significantly in recent months with a solid 56% majority of Republicans now saying they are dissatisfied with the nation’s course, and only 40% expressing satisfaction.

Shortly before the count of U.S. military fatalities reached 4,000, a Pew survey found that only 28% of U.S. adults were able to correctly specify the approximate number of Americans who have died in the Iraq war, far fewer than the number able to estimate troop deaths correctly in earlier surveys.

Nearly nine out of 10 Americans (86%) are “tired of having a country;” frequently cited reasons include a lack of significant results from the democratic process (36%) dissatisfaction with customer service (28%), and exhaustion (22%), as reported by The Onion.

Only about a third (32%) of Buddhists in the United States are Asian; a majority (53%) are white, and most are converts to Buddhism.