CORRECTION: Tunisia and Jordan are marked on some of the maps as being a majority Christian country. This is incorrect. They should have been coloured green as a majority Muslim countries - Jack
oh wow can't wait to see the lebanese and jordanian muslims rambling about it in them comments Edit: I wrote "Lebanese" instead of "Tunisian" pls kill me
My impression is that the comment section in this channel is always rather civilized, especially considering it’s a political channel. I like that. No need to be toxic no matter what your views are
It's already turning shitty :)... Found Islamophobia and Xenophobia for now. I can't wait to find antisemitism (: (this is sarcastic obviously :P !) ...
@@rajatvipraj6429 Yea beasuse of muslims gengis khan can't conquer india. Gengis loose 6 war with mughels. And many more with ottomans. His son taimur lang became Muslim. Don't be a illiterate bhakt. Try to read some history.
@@rezwanulkabir Mughals weren’t around back then but india was controlled by the khaliji empire at the time a Pashtun empire that protected india neither were the ottomans around back then it was the Seljuk empire the mongols captured the Seljuk empire but the mongol empire split apart into disunity
@@RedKytten Sometimes hard to tell with the viewers of this channel but always best to be as they say 'The early bird catches the worm' but come to think of it that's a Misandrist phrase yeah?
Another aspect of our identity lost :( although in this case it has allowed for many progressive reforms to be implemented so it has its benefits I guess. Still would be good if we would follow our religions but keep them out of politics although that never happens 🤣
Categorizing Japan as irreligious shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of religion and religious observance. While a majority of Japanese people would not describe themselves as religious, the vast majority *do* regularly visit shrines and temples, engage in religious observances, and participate in religious practices. Further, in many (non-Abrahamic) regions there is no contradiction in being a part of multiple religions. In China there is not necessarily a contradiction between Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. In other words (as "Hello Future Me" would put it) "Religion is complicated!"
Official Japanese govt statistics show 69% Shinto and 67% Buddhist. If the author means separation of church and state, then by that measure the us is atheist too.
Jews are politically and country wise having own identity like isreal and are sitting on high postions , bhuddists are also not seen here ,you can consider bhuddists and Hindus also Sikhs as same cuz almost they have same pattern
@@acermichel8162 Sikhs and Hindus believe in different concepts so your point is wrong. It like saying Jews and Islam believe in the same "God" so they are roughly the same. Sikhs do have a homeland it's the secular India
That's western mindset ...most of the west knows only three abrahamic religions....jews, christianity and islam...jews believing in western values also helps.
China and Japan have developed their own types of spiritual lifestyles shared by many but without the missionary zeal to convert the whole world. Somehow this doesn't count as religion.
no majority of japanese doesn't give a shit about religion and worshipping a man made statue, yes they have someone called "kami" or Gods, but they don't believe these gods are exist neither they worship these gods, it's similar to how we see ancient greek gods.
@@eljanrimsa5843 Most religions of the East don't have a Missionary zeal. Be it Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Shinto , and even the Chinese Confuciusism. They haven't spread far from their point of origin.
South America was much higher than I expected tbh. Though it actually makes sense that outside of Europe there wouldn’t be much of a drop for religion as it was the world wars (notably the second one) that began to kill off religion in Europe due to such monstrous ideologies appearing during the 20th century that Europe lost its sense of identity and moral superiority that it had up until that point.
I actually thought the UK would be MORE religious on this scale... But I'm very biased because I am from Northern Ireland, which is very 'religious' (read "Northern Ireland's political troubles are traditionally seen to be separated along Catholic/Protestant lines, but is really more about the political viewpoints of Irish Nationalism (Mostly Catholics) and British Unionism (Mostly Protestants)")
@@user-op8fg3ny3j I don't think there ever *was* a unity in christianity. In the early stage, before the first council of Nicaea, there must have been dozens of different ideas what it means to be christian, like the followers of arianism, for example. In the middle ages there was the schism between the catholic and and orthodox churches, the reformation, etc.
It seems like the more developed a country is, the fewer people care about religion. There may be some outliers, but this seems to be a common theme around the world to me.
Yeah, could be that with more educated people, more people get better scientific explainations for phenomenon otherwise credited to god. Or maybe it is that education and a lack of desperation for money/food enables a more critical view of everything around them, and since religion often has lots of stuff that doesn’t make sense, more maybe turn to atheism/being less religious. - Just some most-likely wrong and oversimplified theories.
@HQS those who live in first world countries are very lucky to be there, considering the population proportion of them to the rest of the world. But I don’t think It would be more likely for me to not be an atheist if I had a lower standard of living, if I still could have the same education that I have now. The chance to believe in a god probably has a lot to do with who you grow up with too, religious parents often lead to religious daughters/sons.
In Hindu culture a lot of fundamental & famous things are organised but it's inherently unorganised cuz essentially it's the "qualities" that they worship.
@@shyamashyam391 I am not sure if atheists have a place in Hinduism as it is generally assumed that a Hindu would have faith in at least one of many Hindu Gods. But unlike some Muslim and Christian parents around the world, Hindu parents don't care if their child is becoming an atheist. I was born in a Hindu family. Everyone in my family knows that I am an atheist and no one really cares. This is generally true for almost all Hindu households in India. But one of my schoolmates was a Muslim. He became an atheist like me but scared to death to keep that secret from reaching his family. Even to this date, he is living under the closet pretending to follow Islam. In that regard, Hindus should be applauded for respecting those who reject their beliefs and want to leave the religion whenever they want. As far as I know, no other religion in the world does that like Hinduism. I appreciate Hinduism for that. And I hope this democratic religion will not be ruined by any political party in India.
@@தமிழோன் A Hindus job is to follow his Dharma and based on his Karma he will get moksha. Even if you don't worship any god From hindu mythology you can achieve mokash based on your Karma.
Interesting but doesn't take into account those who culturally identify with a religion vs actually practicing. In Ireland, 70% identify as Christian but Mass attendances are about 10%.
True, but measuring level of devotion (especially across different religions, which have different expectations for practices) is somewhere between very difficult and impossible, so a large scale survey like this basically has to rely on self-reporting.
Yeah I had to laugh at my own country showing up as 70-80% religious on this map. We are very “devout” about social interactions, feasts and parties through and our version of Christianity offers plenty of reasons for that.
@@boosterh1113 That's the thing that I retained in the back of my mind throughout the video - my church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) is an odd exception, as it has a higher than average attendance rate, and just higher participation in general.
@@anon21maps It's mostly outside of the US (six million US members, ten outside). Most lie in Latin America, while many are in Africa. I don't know the exact stats but I haven't seen a significant difference in religiousity according to region in the church.
This is a very complex issue and it is very difficult to correctly estimate religious trends in the future and those surveys are not very reliable. For example, I am from Serbia and here a vast majority of population is going to say that they are religious if you ask them that. But in reality most of them don't go to church, don't pray and fast. Churches in Serbia are literally empty on Sundays. And still all of those people would say that they are religious. But they really don't care about religion.
thats the difference between basically most christians today in the west live like an atheist,do things as them but wear a cross and have this magical "faith" while doing nothing and probably they cope with it, before it was basically totally different, today they while living as his next door atheist who at least doesnt hide and says it openly, islam has different criterias cause it has very big emphasis on 5 daily prayers and fasting 1 month in a year as bulding block to protect faith and to not divert into losing the faith etc
Yeah, there are also likely to be huge pressures in some regions to say "yes I am religious", when you don't actually believe. Also, these surveys can be so difficult to actually get enough people to participate.
true the bible even says the overwhelming majority of people who call themselves christians wont make it to heaven, because its very hard to be christian. The majority of "christians" live like atheists.
You should watch acts 17 apologetics and pfander films and dcci ministries and christian prince and cira international and shamounian and soco films on RU-vid and watch all the videos on RU-vid nahuel pena 😀😀😀😀
Islam has things working in it's favour 1. Higher birth rate 2. No Religion Switching allowed in most Islamic countries 3. But Other religions switching to Islam is allowed I think Islam will rule over the world one day.
Islam is growing rapidly, it's also growing in the west and especially in the east (Korea, Japan) by conversions despite everyone facing pressure not to accept Islam and muslims are encouraged to leave their religion. Islam is fascinating!
@Beholdthehandbeholdthenail we pray in arabic because it was the language of Hazrat Mohammed SAW you are skimming over the fact when we make dua we make it in our language for me it is urdu. The reason translated quran is haram is because it will most likely lose women meaning because words will be lost in translation.
That's just National holidays. Every states have their own religious holidays, eg. In Gujarat where I live we have holiday for Parsi(Zoroastrian) new year for our historic relationship even though only 7000 parsi leave in state of 70milion people and many more.
I'd like to have week-long celebration holidays. The last three days are for the massive hangovers 🥐🥪🍗🍕🥣🍳🍱🍿🥩🧀🍗🥐🥨🥯🥞🧇🧆🧆🍤🍥🍢🍬🍫🍩🍪🦐🥮🦞🥠🍣🍫🍻🍺🍻🧃🧉🥂🍺🍾🍷🥤🍸🥃🍯🧋🥄🧃🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
It is important to point out that accurate numbers on religious identity in China are impossible, since the Government suppresses them. Not only is there Christianity and Islam in the country, there are also an unknown (but presumably large) number of people who still practice traditional religions in private.
@@JH.K The Chinese religion were always exported they're literally Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. However, they don't try to press their religion on anyone because the Chinese only ever care about trade and seeing their piles of paper money go up because they invented it. EDIT: I’m talking about the main religions like Christianity in Europe. Unless you count Greece as where Christianity started because the early Bible was in Greek.
As far as I have heard, Christianity is also rising pretty quickly in China, too. There are currently around 60 million Christians in China. And China will become the country with the most Christians inside in a couple of decades if the trend continues.
@Post-Apocalyptic Christian Paladin no, my ideal situation is that nobody has imaginary friends that make them hate people who don't think like them. My ideal world is a world where people follow science and reason and evidence. 🤷🏻♂️
@@rickybojangles162 look there's a difference between religpus people and fundamentalists. Religous people accept others, while fundementalists don't. Also please respect people who are religous even if you don't agree with them.
Great video but you are missing one crucial statistic, religiosity by age group. In general, younger people are less religious and with the correlation between the religion of a child effectively being the same as the religion of the parents, this will mean that fewer children will grow up with religious parents thus increasing the irreligiosity of the population.
Yeah but it applies to all other religions too. And in china, North Korea all religions are suppressed....but these statistics give you rough picture atleast
@@johnl.7754 I'd love to see stats on the growth of paganism. It's so spread out between different orgs and lots of solitary practicioners that it's hard to make a guess as a layman.
@@Shiranui115 of course many of the “followers” might be doing it as a fad or because it seems fun. From the tv shows it seems like the main way to go to heaven is to die in battle so hopefully no one takes it to the extreme 😁
That was the funniest part of the video. Israel is entirely founded around religion, with a religious symbol on their flag, and that is now fighting over the custody of one of the most important religious cities on the world. And they dont care about religion, amazing 😂😂😂
cuz judaism is an ethno religion. meaning, for exmaple myself, am jewish but i dont really believe in a god, eventho i still consider myself as jewish cuz its my ethnicity. the religion's symbols and history are still very omportant to me cuz its my origin, what my family has done and been thru for ages. its my history even if i dont believe a god was the one incharge.
@d B Because an atheist is not convinced of the existence of God while the unafilliated can believe in a higher power but does not per se subscribe to rules (and traditions) set out by revelation. An atheist often has a much more scientific mindset while most unafilliated people do not know a lot about science per se.
@@americanliberal09 Yeah, most non-religious people are 'somethongists' and/or believe in 'the God of the flowers'. They believe there is a higher power but do not want to discover who he is. Some say that God is in everything from the flowers to the trees and the waters.
I think it kinda depends whether you are thinking about things from a theological perspective or a sociological one. Sure, the spiritual beliefs of an 'unaffiliated' person may go beyond the definitions of atheism. But if what you care about is whether those people are likely to be influenced by religion on how they vote, how they identify politically, how they spend their sundays, or their views on social issues...etc. then the difference becomes slightly immaterial.
@@alchemist7840i shoiuld say something lmao 1. point - It was called Czechoslovakia which as said earlier is dissolved (1993) 2. Never wrong-ly "teach" others about their own country The mispronunciation in videos can happen - especially in those kind of videos. Please be respectful
I believe Czechoslovakia was dissolved and it formed 2 countries, Slovakia and Czech Republic a.k.a. Czechia. The way to pronounce the “ch” is like a “k”. Their respective capitals are Bratislava and Prague.
I find it perplexing how soon people forgot that "Czech Republic" was pronounced with a K sound, and now somehow end up calling you guys "Czeczia". Kurwa, what is wrong with them Anglos?
Aren't you also world leading in government interaction digitalization? honestly, im quite jealous of that feature of your country. also also the non-religious stuff ofc. makes things a lot more grounded in reality. Keep doing whatcha doing, seems to work.
@@commorevpenguin9602 where exactly? and it couldve also just been overlooked by the TLDR peeps that were doing this, they didnt post a source for their data anyways so who knows
As an ex muslim from Iraq I have to say that islam isn't on the rise. People who leave islam in muslim countries can't change their religion in the state so that's why muslim countries always have high percentage of Muslims for Iraq it's 98% but in reality it's lower than that, even less religious countries like turkey have such high percentages. Islam's rise was because of high fertility rate but since fertility rates are falling Islam won't grow anymore and it would decline even more than other religions since its ruse relies on high fertility rates and not conversions.
Islam has the highest net conversions out of any religion. Source is from pew research study. Islam is on the way to become the world's no 1 religion. In 50 years, only Islam and Irreligious demographics will see a great rise in population. Christinaity won't grow as much as these two.
These graphics were brilliantly done! Massive praise to your editing and graphic design teams, let alone whoever sat down and digested all of those numbers!
I want to escape from my country to yours. Do you guys take refugees who are fleeing religion? Edit: I was joking about taking refuge. Luckily I'm in a great shape, at least till now to seek refuge. But I am worried about the rising religious extremism in my country and all around the world. I would love to live in a country where religion matters the least.
@@WhyWorldSucks lol they didn't take normal refugees high chance they will laugh at your request and throw it into trash, and if somehow they allow you to come what will they do? Send a plane to Iran? That is never happening
@@gtubbs6974 They are also the villains. First what good have they done other than undermining a functioning democracy and kidnapping kids for their ranks? And the "bad" thing the empire does is blow up a planet inhabited by just rebels.
4:53 Ah Yes! Every one knows how much Catholic is Tunisia, and of course the map doesn't forget to remind us how much influence the Orthodox church has over Jordan.
This is such a concise and well put together video! Im so surprised at how much i learnt and understood in just 10 mins lol. Ive never been so impressed lmao
They do because God gives them the right to. Which is the whole problem, the in a god which can allow everything without any repercussions because of its divinity, it's just a blank cheque to do anything.
People from diverse countries know the importance of separation of church and state, but people from more homogeneous countries struggle with this concept. This is why immigration needs to increase on a global scale to maintain peace.
I believe Bangladesh and Sri lanka were mixed up at around 1:08. Sri Lanka is the island nation, while Bangladesh is the one located at the Ganges delta, bordering India and Myanmar
if people in portugal ask if people believe in something, they say yes, but if they ask if they believe in the catholic God or practice catholicism, most of them say no. that is why, in these types of surveys, Portugal always seems more Catholic than it really is. and a large percentage of the "religious" are agnostic. and often the supernatural being they speak of is the "universe" or "destiny"
I think they should, you would be afraid of the law if you were breaking it. And according to the Bible, God morals standards are so high, that even the sin we commit in our thoughts displease God. We can only go to heaven from his mercy, not by our own actions, our actions are just a prove to ourselves of how much invested we are in this relationship with God, it’s not a bribe to go to heaven.
Hinduism us a ethno-religion it's only mostly indians who are religiously Indu, while with islam you have Arabs, turks, Persians, Malayans, etc and with christianity you have Europeans, Americans, Latin Americans and huge minorities in Arab countries and majorities in Central and South of Africa.
5:45 I highly doubt if “no religion” is really the dominant “religion”, since in East Asia many of us often get confused and claim to be non-religious while actually to some extent subscribing to the Folk Religion.
It's not necessarily about money, more about purpose, religion gives purpose to people and a lot of religious people give purpose to priests. (I myself am atheist)
@Imbesat Yeah that's surely why Iranian people live in a fake democracy where the clergy is all-powerful to the point it can filter out presidential candidates.
@@user-uf2df6zf5w not christian, but that is a little out of context since people who practice a religion vs say they are a religious person are different. In this case it is true that the church has played a role in things it says its not apart of but keeps doing over and over again. Hell, I live in Canada and just recently they found 215 bodies of dead children, and even more recently 700 more all of which were killed because of the residential school system (you can search it up for more info), and surprisingly the schools were run by nuns under guess what, the church. The church liked expanding their religion on to people in the past, and almost each time it has failed with thousands dead, sometimes it could transform people into Christians, but at the cost of their life i.e forcing people to change faith and when they dont they f their life up like when they took kids form their families in Canada saying it was for "education" but in reality they were just transforming the next generation of the indigenous people, so when the previous generation died the rest would be chrsitian
@@lioness5838 as far as I know, no but it is possible somewhere down the line lol. There are many people of Indian descent in Jamaica and non-Indians with the name Asha are not out of place although not necessarily that common
You said Islam is mostly found in the Middle East and North Africa but that’s only true if you look at land masses. Most people who practice Islam though live in Southern Asia and the pacific islands
@@colejones6312 Why? Even the democracy-and-referendum-loving West don't want to give up Basque, Catalonia, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Frisian Land, Northern Italy, Greenland, etc.
Do you think non muslims will go to Haven? Im not asking about what your religion says. But I'm asking your personal opinion. "Will non muslims go to Haven?"
@@lingesh2773 my religion says no and yes. It depends on the circumstances and whatever my religion says will be my opinion because my opinion is not greater than gods opinion
The more developed countries are some of the least religious. I'm in Kenya and while I'm glad to have freedom of religion there's still social stigma against being atheist. I'm just relieved as a woman that I'm not in a predominantly Muslim country.
@@SoJoever Christianity's prevalence in Europe and the US was the cause of many charities to be founded. It has bad points but it certainly isn't toxic.
@@halalpolice7544 69% is high for a developed country but low compared with the rest of the world. I'd say Japan and China have similar numbers if the definition of religion would be a bit broader. But as always, it messes up all the numbers if you count the Chinese.
Great but i am i muslim our teacher always said that atheist will go to hell however i didn't believe him becaus your actions will leed to your destiny
They went with the number of people who are members of an organised religion, and a lot of organised religions make it such hassle to 'unsubscribe', as it were, that people would rather stay a member but just never turn up. I think that skews the figures very significantly in a lot of countries, particularly in Europe.
@@Alan-it5is do you think most of these religious populations are orthodox christians from Russian ethnicity? I’ve seen several churches in Tallinn but rarely knows any Estonian friends who go.
@@bagaskaraiqbal7a I think majority of people who go to churches are still estonians but russians are the next one. I would say it's 55% estonians and 45% russians
Technically, Hinduism is not even a religion. Hindu word itself is foreign word used by middle easterners to describe people living beyond HinduKush mountains
I live in Hungary and there aren't as many Christians as they say, a lot of us say they are religious because that's the tradition but it doesn't really affect our lives
@@carl4243 Not 100% perse. I was in Vietnam and the dominant religion was Buddhism with only 2% of the population practicing it. But still you see the temples and pagodas everywhere, their culture still revolves around it.
not really. the Golf States at every religious and Islamic but also rich, thanks to the oil money. but I ce the oil is gone, the situation could change.
Well according to Google, Luxembourg has the highest GDP per capita and 73% of their population adhere to forms of Christianity. While I do think generally richer countries are less religious I think there are many things that affect this.
Small note: The latest gallup poll in the Netherlands was quite a while ago. More recent polls from the Dutch central bureau of statistics (2010-2015), Radboud University (2015) and Eurobarometer (2019) show a majority religiously unaffiliated here (50,1%, 67,8% and 52% respectively)
@@halalpolice7544 i didnt change my opinion It is a fact that most countries in the 90s and even in the 80s dont have religious freedom, the true numbers are likely lower than the reported ones And , in a similar way, secular countries that prosecute religion ( such as China ) the numbers arw probably higher than reported I dont understand what about my opinion is garbage accoarding to your standards
We just greyed out the countries which we didn't have data for; including China and Mongolia. You'll notice that other countries have been greyed out including neighbouring Guyana and Suriname in South America. As they weren't relevant we just greyed them out and removed borders to avoid confusion & the perception that they were included in the scale - Jack
While level of observance is very difficult to measure, it would be interesting to see a further division between "culturally identify", "active observer/practicer", and "deeply devout".
No their twice the amount of Jews surprisingly, but Sikhs don't have their own country, nor having much political power and influence like Jews have, plus the religious is very new with it officially becoming a religion just over 320 years ago despite the founder being born just over 550 years back.
U should also have mentioned the fact that india's muslim population is just a little lesser than pakistan's(if not same) and that the Indian christian population is almost as much as the UK's
Is there anything like this (not a RU-vid video of course, but some paper) from 40 years ago, predicting what the percentages of different religions would be now. Were they accurate?
We just greyed out the countries which we didn't have data for; including China and Mongolia. You'll notice that other countries have been greyed out including neighbouring Guyana and Suriname in South America. As they weren't relevant we just greyed them out and removed borders to avoid confusion & the perception that they were included in the scale - Jack
@@srijanvarma9406 Religion is always important . developed Christian countries spend Bellion dollars is missionaries . Developed Muslim countries dose the same . Religion is important .
@@theplutonimus *it’s Austronesian people. And yes, the Taiwanese Indigenous people are still fighting for their rights and trying to revive their culture. The democratic government is making significant progress to undo the harm caused by previous regimes. Today, Indigenous culture is rightfully becoming a part of the new Taiwan identity.
@@olek6525 Ah yes, I meant Austronesian, But I couldn't find the word. But yes, Taiwan is definitely a very democratic government and includes all people. Didn't get the language part tho. Only has 4-5 main languages
I find it interesting that there was no data for Papua New Guinea. It's a very strongly Christian country. Everyone I met there assumed I was a Christian missionary at first. I guess whatever source just didn't bother looking into PNG. No complaint, but I always find stats from that region interesting.
For atheist people who are making fun of religous people in the comments, please, as an atheist myself ask you to shut up and accept that some people have different views.
Thank you man atheist people always talk about how religious people are annoying but they go and insult people believe and try promoting ""their religion"" they act like they're the only people with brain and the reason that i will believe in thor rather than being that toxic
This is one of those things where if you dive deeper on just the United States, you will find things look a lot more complex. Without the Bible Belt and Utah, the US would be much lower in religiosity.
@@zigmar7 It is when you consider that a majority of those people are not active in their religious faith. Some may be extremely devout, going to church every Sunday, participating in activities, others may only go on Easter and Christmas, and some just say they're Christian but may hardly believe in most Christian doctrines. That's the vast swath of situations you have in that percentage.
3:49 Irreligion is not synonymous with atheism, because not subscribing to any particular religion doesn't make you an "atheist" by default. Do you even realize that the vast majority of non-religious people here in the US are actually "theists", right?
