A recent Nielsen survey in Australia on religious belief puts the number who don't believe in god at 24% and not sure/don't know at 6%.
The percentage of Christians is 64%, with other major faiths totalling around 5%.
The numbers are not changing rapidly, but disbelief is much higher among the young, so it looks like the numbers of nonbelievers will continue to grow, albeit slowly - census information from New Zealand shows that people don't adopt religion faster than they leave it as a cohort ages, and there's nothing to suggest that this trend would be any different in Australia; that is, the overall percentage of nobelievers will likely be well in the majority in a few decades.
Belief in life after death is only 53%, and belief that the bible/quran/etc is the word of god is only 34%.
But there were some worrying numbers, too, with Darwinian evolution not far in front of some form of "god guided" development (42% to 32%), and YE creationism coming in third, but with alarmingly high numbers (23%); in this case I'd particularly like to see the exact wording of the question that was put, because the numbers seem quite out of kilter; it would suggest that there are very few theists (only about 20% or so of theists in all) who accept Darwinian evolution, assuming almost all nontheists do.
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census information from New Zealand shows that people don't adopt religion faster than they leave it as a cohort ages
Fascinating. If I were to guess, I'd guess that this is not the case in America. But maybe my smallish personal sample isn't representative.
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