What is going on everyone? Let's talk about religion or the lack thereof. Today we're talking
about countries with the largest portion of the population that claim to be atheists if you don't
know what atheism is it can simply be explained as a person who doesn't believe in god or some
other form of higher power there are several flavors of atheism that i'm not going to get into
we're just broad brushing this one with people that don't believe in the big man upstairs or
downstairs if you've stepped over to the dark side i promise there will be people
in the comments section just talking about the different types of atheism and how i got it wrong
they're almost like vegetarians you ask someone if they're a vegetarian and you get a 20-minute
speech on how vegetarians are like minor league vegans or serious vegetarians and it just goes
on and on never ask someone about if they're vegetarian trust me on that one we're gonna keep
this one simple and look at a worldwide study that was done a few years back and this will be
asked so i'm just gonna put out there just so you know in the survey 43 percent of americans fall
into the atheist crowd alright let's take a look and see what countries are losing their religion
number 25 iceland we start off this list with this nordic island nation filled with geysers
volcanoes hot springs and lava fields and not much religion 54 of the population say
they are atheists now the believers on this island nation 95 of them are christian and 0.2
are muslims those are the two main ones there back in the day they believed in viking gods
24 france even though france has some amazing cathedrals and churches
not everyone's on board with whole religion thing here 55 percent of the french people claim they
are atheists of the people that do believe 63 percent are christian and 7.5 are muslim
23 slovenia you know i don't know much about slovenia one thing i do know is
they don't get on the religion train too much 59 of the population claim to be atheists
of the believers 78.4 percent are christian 3.6 are muslim you know
i for this area i really thought they'd have a higher muslim population who knows
22 austria austria much like germany they don't get into the religion thing too much you'll see
germany later on on this list 59 of the austrian residents claim to be atheists of the believers
80.4 percent are christian and 5.4 are muslim you know that one kind of surprised me there i didn't
think they'd have as many muslims there but here you haven't 21 ireland blown away at this one i
mean i come from a family that's part norwegian part irish my grandmother my great-grandmother
my aunts everyone they were very religious i just always thought this was a very religious
country and here they are almost cracking the top 20 of atheist places 60 of ireland's population
claim to be atheist of the believers 62 percent are christian 1.1 are muslim and by the way
i'm only including the top two religions in any country or we'd be here all week just so you know
number 20 israel again mind blown this is a jewish state how are a bunch of people here not
into religion now on this one i had to dig a little deeper because i was really blown
away on this one the study i found said 61 of israel's population is atheist and
i got a little deeper and there was a israeli newspaper called harris or it's h-a-a-r-e-t-z
i think that's how you call it but anyway they came up with 65 of israel is atheists so not
too far from the study i got most the information from but of the believers as you can imagine 75.6
are jewish eighteen point six percent are muslims and two percent are christian
nineteen latvia now i don't know a whole bunch about latvia my son was actually stationed there
for about a year uh when he was in the military but i'll tell you one thing i do know 62 percent
don't believe in the man upstairs of the believers 55.8 percent are christian 1.5 percent are muslim
18. finland now you're going to start seeing a lot from this part of the world they're just not into
religion like you might think they would be 62 percent of finland's population claim they are
atheists of the believers 81.6 percent are christian and less than one percent are muslim
they just really don't go for it i imagine they're just too busy trying to stay warm
seventeen canada or as i like to call it the land of doug for some reason i know like six canadians
all named doug i'm not sure what the deal is with naming your son's doug in canada is but it seems
to be a thing i mean other than the right side of the country when you got quebec and montreal they
go with like jean-pierre and stuff like that but 63 percent of doug's consider themselves atheists
of the believers 69 percent are christian 2.1 percent are muslim i'm a little shocked
there i really thought they'd have a higher muslim population but it's only 2.1 percent
16. spain this is another one that kind of shocked me spain has amazingly beautiful churches and
cathedrals and here they are 63 percent of their population claim to be atheists
but of those people that believe 78.6 are christian 2.1 percent are muslim
number 15 azerbaijan this is another country that i don't know a ton about
but i do know they're not into religion 64 of the azerbaijan people do not believe
in the man upstairs but of the ones that do 96.9 percent are muslim and 3 percent
are christian a little bit switcheroo there compared to what we've had already
14 south korea i'm not too shocked on this one a lot of asian countries
really aren't into the whole religion thing five of the top 15 are asian countries on this list 65
of south korea's population say they are atheists of the believers 29.4
are christian and twenty two point nine percent are buddhist
thirteen hong kong you know i'm over fifty there was a cartoon back in the seventies called hong
kong phooey every time i say the word hong kong i to say phooey at the end of it i mean totally
racist cartoon but we didn't know that back in the 70s i just looked it up and it was a big part of
my life i've always remembered it and they only did like 16 episodes and then some other smaller
half episodes only last like two years or something anyway we're talking about religion
on this video not hanna-barbera cartoons and in hong kong 66 of the population say they are
atheists now i'll give you three on this one 14.3 percent of the believers say they're christian
13.2 percent are buddhist now here's a different one 12.8 percent follow what is known as folk
religion if you don't know it folk religion it's kind of an ethnic regional religion
or customs that fall under the umbrella of religion but outside the official doctrine
or practice of any other regular religion that's kind of the definition they give you
number 12 germany germany is another one i'm a little surprised on i mean most of europe has
you know deep roots in various religions and yeah things change over time but it
usually takes generation after generation after generation to really get away from
a religion and germany seems to be a place that's cutting a few of those generations
out of the equation 66 of the german population claim they're
atheists of the believers 68.7 believe in christianity while 5.8 say they are muslim
11. vietnam yeah another asian country they're really not into religion now they do have a
good portion of their population that's in the folk religion but 67
say they are atheists folk religion 43.5 and buddhist is 16.4 percent
number 10 denmark denmark doesn't surprise me at all i did read a study by their government
that says that 80 of the population belongs to the elc which stands for the evangelical
lutheran but only 10 of them attend services now they're still part of the church so they'll
do things like funerals weddings confirmations baptisms things like that but as far as going
or really considering themselves that only 10 68 of denmark's population
say they are atheists with 83.5 percent making up christianity and 4.1 percent
is muslim the muslim population is mostly focused in copenhagen and some of the other larger cities
number nine norway norway is just like denmark over 80 percent of the believers belong to the
elc but only about eight percent attend services on a weekly basis and that's the believers 70
of this country claim they are atheists but when it does come to christianity 84.7 percent
are christian and 3.7 percent are muslim
number eight australia so this one sort of surprised me i don't know why they're really
not a very religious country i just thought they would be don't know why
but 70 percent of australia's population claim they are
atheists of the believers 67.3 percent are christian and 2.4 are muslim
number seven estonia estonia is another place that i really don't know too much about i
do love their flag they got a really cool flag that black blue and white i don't know it just
looks really cool they're up there next to latvia and russia they have a lot of atheists
in this country which i'm sure some of them are praying right now russia doesn't decide to
stop in ukraine and start in estonia but 72 percent of estonia's population claim
they are atheists of the believers 39.9 percent are christian and only 0.2 percent are muslim
number six belgium belgium isn't a big country and they're not big into religion
either so in the top 10 i've been trying to look in and find other studies to get
a better grasp of what's going on in these countries and normally the government will
have some kind of statistics on things like religion and population one thing
they don't collect in belgium is religious affiliation numbers so i thought that was
kind of interesting but 72 percent of the belgian population claims they are atheists
with 64.2 percent of the believers believing in christianity and 5.9 percent being muslim
number five the united kingdom this again kind of surprised me with the family that comes from
that part of the world i just always assumed the united kingdom was very religious now i feel like
i should clear something up because whenever i say the united kingdom and then ireland was also
on their people we already said ireland ireland is not part of the united kingdom northern ireland is
not ireland but yeah much to my surprise 72 percent of the united kingdom claims
to be atheist while 71 of the believers are christian and 4.4 percent are muslim
number four the czech republic this is a beautiful country if you've never visited
definitely go to prague someday it's an amazing city with great history
beautiful country the architecture is just mind-blowing for this place anyway 75 percent
of the czech republic say they are atheist of the believers 53.3 percent are christian
2.1 percent are buddhists and then there's a whole bunch that claim to be religious but unaffiliated
that's most of them in case you're doing the numbers here that's what the rest are unaffiliated
number three sweden whedon just like mostly scandinavian countries they're not too big
on the man upstairs i mean for a long time this whole part of the world was all into the norse
gods and all that stuff and then it's like they really didn't get into anything too big
after that 78 percent of the swedish population claim they are atheist with 67.2 of the believers
being christian 4.6 percent being muslim and a whole bunch of one percent of everything else
number two japan yes see another asian country i don't know what it is but the asian countries and
you know a lot of the scandinavian countries they're not into religion
look at central and south america and you will not find them near the top 25.
i read one article where a japanese man said that the japanese people believe more in
godzilla and pokemon than they do any other religion i thought that was interesting but
81 of japan's population claim their atheist but of the people that do believe in some
sort of religion 36.2 percent are buddhist and 1.6 falling into the muslim category
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and number one china this is an amazing stat i mean so many people are atheists in china
that it's it's kind of strange it's hard to believe that they have this
many people and this many don't believe in something 91 of china's population
claim to be atheists yes they've all agreed that they don't believe in this
you can't even get that high a percentage when you're offering free money most people are all
into free money but then there's those types are well where's this money coming from nothing's free
but 91 of the people claim that they are atheists in china mind-blowing but of the believers 52.2
percent are buddhists and 18.2 percent are folk religion all right so that's today's video now one
thing i did find interesting some of the countries with the lowest amount of atheists are actually
african countries again mind-blowing i had no idea but we'll do that in another video
alright everyone hope you enjoyed the video now go out have a great day be nice to each other