{"id":260490,"date":"2025-06-09T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=260490"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:29:40","slug":"religion-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/religion-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"13. Religion in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North America \u2013 comprised in this report of the United States and Canada \u2013 had 378 million inhabitants in 2020, a 9% increase since 2010.[29. numoffset=&#8221;29&#8243; This definition of North America corresponds to the United Nations\u2019 category of \u201cNorthern America\u201d but excludes Bermuda, Greenland, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which have populations of less than 100,000 each. The UN includes Mexico in the Latin America and Caribbean region.] Christians are by far the largest religious group in the region (63%), followed by religiously unaffiliated people (30%). All other groups, including Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus, each account for less than 2% of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the period from 201o to 2020, North America experienced large shifts in the shares of two religious categories: a steep drop in Christians as a percentage of the region\u2019s overall population, and a corresponding rise in the percentage of the population that is religiously unaffiliated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prevailing pattern of change in the region is religious disaffiliation, particularly by people who say they were raised Christian but who have stopped identifying with any religion in adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-640-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?attachment_id=260794\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e9e9ea\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e9e9ea;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" height=\"310\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?w=1024\" alt=\"Table showing Christians predominate in North America, but less than they did in 2010\" class=\"wp-image-260794 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png 1280w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=300,145 300w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=768,372 768w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=1024,496 1024w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=836,405 836w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=200,97 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=260,126 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=310,150 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=420,203 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=640,310 640w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=740,358 740w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=160,78 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-01.png?resize=320,155 320w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;religious-change&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"religious-change\">Religious change<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christians were the only group in the region that declined in absolute <em>number<\/em> (or <em>count<\/em>) from 2010 to 2020, falling below 240 million (down 11%). Meanwhile, the number of religiously unaffiliated people almost doubled to 114 million (up 92%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several religious groups with smaller footprints in the region grew much faster than the region\u2019s population overall. North American Muslims now number about 6 million (up 52%). People in the \u201cother religions\u201d category (up 62%) and Buddhists (up 27%) each have grown to more than 5 million. There also are about 4 million Hindus in the region, up 55% from 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the growth of Muslim and Hindu populations in the U.S. and Canada can be attributed to immigration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North America\u2019s Jewish population grew by only a few tens of thousands over the decade (up less than 1%), due to a relatively old age structure, low fertility rates and the absence of any major, new wave of Jewish immigration since the collapse of the Soviet Union. (For consistency with other religious groups, the definition of Jewishness in North America is based on self-identification with Judaism<em> as a religion<\/em>. It does not include people who describe their current religion as atheist, agnostic or \u201cnothing in particular\u201d but who consider themselves Jewish for reasons aside from religion, such as ancestry, culture or family background.[30. For estimates of the size of the U.S. Jewish population in 2020 using a broader definition, refer to Pew Research Center\u2019s in-depth report, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2021\/05\/11\/jewish-americans-in-2020\/\">Jewish Americans in 2020<\/a>.\u201d] Refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/jewish-population-change\/\">Chapter 8<\/a> for more details.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of the <em>percentage <\/em>(or <em>share<\/em>) that each group made up, North America saw the two largest changes of any region: Christians dropped by 14 percentage points to 63% of the region\u2019s population in 2020, while religiously unaffiliated people rose by 13 points to 30% of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every other group\u2019s share of the population changed by less than 1 percentage point between 2010 and 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;substantial-change-within-countries&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"substantial-change-within-countries\">Substantial change within countries<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between 2010 and 2020, both the U.S. and Canada experienced drops of about 14 percentage points in the share of their populations that are Christian. Christians now make up an estimated 64% of all U.S. residents and 53% of Canada\u2019s inhabitants. Both countries\u2019 religiously unaffiliated populations grew substantially over the same period (by at least 5 percentage points).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-style-plus-icon has-border-color has-ui-gray-light-border-color has-ui-beige-very-light-background-color has-background has-sans-serif-font-family is-layout-flow wp-container-core-details-is-layout-61b01db2 wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-width:1px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);font-size:clamp(0.875em, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2em) * 0.009), 0.88em);\"><summary>How is \u2018substantial change\u2019 defined?<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This section highlights countries that experienced substantial change in the size of their religious populations between 2010 and 2020. We focus on cases where a religious group\u2019s share of a country\u2019s population grew or shrank by at least 5 percentage points. We set that threshold because wide variations in data sources make it difficult to test the statistical significance of differences in population estimates in 2010 and 2020. Refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/global-religious-change-methodology\/\">Methodology<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-420-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?attachment_id=260795\"><img data-dominant-color=\"ebebeb\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #ebebeb;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" height=\"268\" width=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?w=840\" alt=\"Table showing that in the U.S. and Canada, Christian populations declined as the religiously unaffiliated grew\" class=\"wp-image-260795 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png 840w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=300,191 300w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=768,490 768w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=635,405 635w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=200,128 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=260,166 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=310,198 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=420,268 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=640,408 640w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=740,472 740w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=160,102 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-02.png?resize=320,204 320w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of 2020, about 30% of <strong>U.S. <\/strong>residents (of all ages) do not identify with any religion, an increase of 13 points since 2010. In <strong>Canada, <\/strong>religiously unaffiliated people made up about 35% of the population in 2020, up 11 points since 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;median-age-of-religious-groups&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"median-age-of-religious-groups\">Median age of religious groups<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The median age of religious groups in North America ranges from 28 among Muslims to 44 among Christians. North America\u2019s overall median age is 39 \u2013 the second-highest of any region of the world (after Europe, where the median age is 42).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-200-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?attachment_id=260796\"><img data-dominant-color=\"ebebeb\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #ebebeb;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" height=\"357\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-03.png?w=400\" alt=\"Table showing Christians and Jews tend to be older than other groups in North America\" class=\"wp-image-260796 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-03.png 400w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-03.png?resize=168,300 168w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-03.png?resize=227,405 227w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-03.png?resize=200,357 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-03.png?resize=260,464 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-03.png?resize=310,553 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-03.png?resize=160,286 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_013-03.png?resize=320,571 320w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to Christians, Buddhists (43) and Jews (44) have higher median ages than the region overall. By comparison, Hindus (30) and the religiously unaffiliated (31) have relatively young populations in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of North Americans are Christian. 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the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020","slug":"how-the-global-religious-landscape-changed-from-2010-to-2020","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/how-the-global-religious-landscape-changed-from-2010-to-2020\/","is_active":false},{"id":260365,"title":"1. Factors driving religious change, 2010-2020","slug":"factors-driving-religious-change-2010-2020","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/factors-driving-religious-change-2010-2020\/","is_active":false},{"id":260372,"title":"2. Christian population change","slug":"christian-population-change","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/christian-population-change\/","is_active":false},{"id":260385,"title":"3. Muslim population change","slug":"muslim-population-change","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/muslim-population-change\/","is_active":false},{"id":260391,"title":"4. Religiously unaffiliated population change","slug":"religiously-unaffiliated-population-change","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/religiously-unaffiliated-population-change\/","is_active":false},{"id":260423,"title":"5. Hindu population change","slug":"hindu-population-change","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/hindu-population-change\/","is_active":false},{"id":260426,"title":"6. Buddhist population change","slug":"buddhist-population-change","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/buddhist-population-change\/","is_active":false},{"id":260432,"title":"7. \u2018Other religions\u2019 population change","slug":"other-religions-population-change","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/other-religions-population-change\/","is_active":false},{"id":260450,"title":"8. Jewish population change","slug":"jewish-population-change","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/06\/09\/jewish-population-change\/","is_active":false},{"id":260452,"title":"9. 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