Thread by @conradhackett

NEW REPORT: How and why religious commitment varies between young & old as well as across countries. This study reports on @pewresearch surveys from a record number of countries (106).

This is the start of a thread with key results
pewforum.org/2018/06/13/the…

Young adults are less likely than older adults to pray daily in 71 countries

Younger adults are less likely than older adults to attend worship services weekly in 53 countries

Younger adults are less likely than older adults to consider religion very important in 46 countries

Younger adults are less likely than older adults to identify with any religious group in 41 countries

Two reasons older adults may be more religious than younger adults
1. People get more religious as they age
2. Older generations are replaced by less religious generations

Even if parts of the world are secularizing, it is not necessarily the case that the world's population is becoming less religious. Rather, the most religious areas of the world are experiencing the fastest population growth because they have high fertility & young populations.

86% of adults say religion in very important in Niger, where the population is expected to more than quadruple between 2015 and 2060.

10% say religion is very important in Japan, where the population is expected to shrink by 20% between 2015 and 2060.

People seem to be more religious in parts of the world where existential insecurity is high

Weekly worship attendance is most common in countries where life expectancy at birth is shortest

% who say religion is very important in their lives
Ethiopia 98%
Indonesia 93%
Honduras 90%
Nigeria 88%
India 80%
S Africa 75%
Egypt 72%
Brazil 72%
Turkey 68%
Greece 56%
US 53%
Mexico 45%
Canada 27%
Spain 22%
Australia 18%
Russia 16%
France 11%
Japan 10%
UK 10%
China 3%