Here are the 10 countries/territories in which religion is <i>least</i> "important in daily life" according to the OP: Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, Czech Republic, Japan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Finland, France.<p>Here are the 10 countries/territories in which religion is <i>most</i> "important in daily life" according to the OP: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Niger, Somalia, Indonesia, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Malawi, Burundi, Mauritania.<p>Interesting: The least religious countries/territories have more economic, social, and political stability and are far wealthier and more technologically/scientifically advanced than the most religious ones. If I had to randomly choose a country in which I would be forced to live, I would rather it be in the top-10-least-religious group than the in the other (top-10-most-religious) group.
Can someone provide context on what it means for Israel to be on this list?<p>I generally think of Israel as being defined by religion. It's in the "holy land", and it seems like almost every news article about Israel includes something about a religion.
I find this really interesting...but can we talk about that opening map? It's something I'm seeing a lot of more recently and wondering if I'm broken or the people making them are. I don't think of myself as colorblind, but I only see 'red and purple' on the map. Why did they use tiny variations of those two colors to cover 10 different categories? Or can some people clearly differentiate the shades easily?
So, just for some added context. religion fell of the map in Australia about 5-7 years ago when there was a Royal Commission called into Institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
For a few years there you'd hear some really shocking stuff on the radio about terrible events happening to kids at the hands of those in power in the churches.
The Australian 2011 census has recorded pretty high engagement with religion, and after that 2016 there was a 10% decrease in direct reporting of affiliation.
Those colors are horrible to me. I’ve got no idea what any country is outside of either redish or purpleish. At least label a few hard to distinguish choices with a numerical value.
There's one huge gap there which is China, they don't have any data there. If you click on it in their world map it shows NaN%.<p>Considering their enormous population it matters a lot on the world as a whole.
This oft-cited paper¹ shows that almost all measures of societal health are negatively correlated with religiosity, across the world. Of course that doesn’t prove that faith causes such things as teenage pregnancy, crime, and drug abuse, but it’s provocative.<p>[1] <a href="http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.pdf</a>
People often point out how the US is an outlier in religiosity as a western, wealthy nation, but I've always wondered how it would break down if you corrected for its diversity. For example, there are a lot of first and second generation Italian immigrants in the US, how does that population compare to Italy? There are a lot of Mexican immigrants, how does that population compare to Mexico? The older groups from protestant countries, how do they compare to Germany or the UK, and so on.
There is a strong correlation b/w science and non-reglious countries. The case of saudi arabia is interesting. Although it is wealthy the country does not have the capability to manufacture.