Read the full story: Graphs About Religion
The Cooperative Election Study released some new data. If you’ve been a follower of this newsletter, you read about this in a post a couple of months ago. The big headline finding is that the share of Americans who claim to be atheist, agnostic, or have no religion in particular has continued to decline. It was 36% in both 2021 and 2022 but had started to slide from that all-time high. By 2024, the CES estimate for those three groups was down to 34% and then it declined even further to 32% in the most recently released data.