Pew Research Center recently explained American adults’ religious affiliations by displaying the data as if the U.S. only had 100 people, finding that 62 of them would be Christians.
Pew reported that 23 would be evangelical Protestants, 19 would be Catholics, 11 would be mainline Protestants, five would be from black Protestant denominations, two would be Mormon, and two would be from other Christian groups, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Twenty-nine people would be “nones” — atheists, agnostics, or otherwise religiously indifferent or unaffiliated. Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism would each have one believer, while two would be Jewish and two would belong to other religious groups, such as Sikhs or Wiccans.
More Christians would be over 50 years old than under 50, while the opposite would be true for nones. Thirty-five Christians would be 50 or older, 18 would be between 30 and 49, and nine would be between 18 and 29, Pew found. Conversely, nones would have fewer than 10 people over age 50 and 20 people under age 50.
Christians would be the only religious denomination with a large gender gap. Pew found 34 of the Christians would be women and 28 would be men.
Pew also analyzed the religious affiliations by race, finding that 25 people would be white Protestants, 19 would be white nones, seven would be black Protestants, and seven would be Hispanic Catholics.
The South would have the most Protestants (20), boasting more Protestants than all other parts of the country combined, while Catholics would be evenly spread across the country.
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