The study surveyed citizens of 68 countries.
In addition, many people held religious beliefs without necessarily defining themselves as being religious. These beliefs included:
Souls (74 per cent)
Life after death (54 per cent)
Heaven (56 per cent)
Hell (49 per cent)
Participants were asked "Independently of whether you go to a place of worship or not, would you say you are..."
A religious person
Not a religious person
A convinced atheist
Do not know/no response
The nature of the question is worth noting, as for instance Norway has a high church attendance rate, despite the relatively high proportion of convinced atheists.
Explaining the double-think required, is another matter.
Convinced atheists
Agnosticism was also alive an well in Japan, with 26 per cent answering ‘Don’t know’.
Fiji, Thailand, and Azerbaijan had 0 per cent agnostics.
In the UK, 58 per cent described themselves as ‘non religious’, and 11 per cent were ‘convinced atheists’. Only 27 per cent thought of themselves as ‘religious’.
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