Two-thirds of global population have a faith but in UK 30% of people are religious compared with more than 90% in countries such as Thailand
The UK is among the least religious countries in the world, according to a new survey. In a global ranking of 65 countries, the UK came six places from last
with 30% of the population calling themselves religious.
While 53% of people said they were not religious, only 13% said they were a convinced atheist and the remainder did not know how to define themselves.
This compares with 94% of people in Thailand and 93% of people in Armenia, Bangladesh, Georgia and Morocco who said they were religious.
At the bottom of the list was China where only 6% of people said they were religious while 61% said they were convinced atheists.
This was followed by Japan, where just 13% of people were religious, Sweden with 19%, Czech Republic with 23%, and the Netherlands and Hong Kong with 26%.
Jean-Marc Leger, president of Win/Gallup International, said [...]
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