Irreligion in the United Kingdom
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Irreligion in the United Kingdom is more prevalent than in some parts of Europe, with about 8% indicating they were atheistic in 2018,[5] and 52% listing their religion as "none".[4] A third of Anglicans polled in a 2013 survey doubted the existence of God, while 15% of those with no religion believed in some higher power, and deemed themselves "spiritual" or even "religious".[6]
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United Kingdom: 25,273,945 – 37.8% (2021) England: 20,715,664 – 36.7% (2021)[1] Scotland: 2,780,900 – 51.1% (2022)[2] Wales: 1,446,398 – 46.5% (2021)[1] Northern Ireland: 330,983 – 17.4% (2021)[note 1][3] | |
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Irreligion: (including antitheism, agnostic atheism, apatheism, casualism, counter-apologeticism, debaptism evangelical atheism, freethought/freethinker, ignosticism, implicit and explicit atheism, Marxist–Leninist atheism, negative and positive atheism, nonbeliever, nontheism, post-theism, rationalism, new/scientific atheism, physicalism, metaphysical naturalism, logicalism, secular humanism, skepticism, etc.) Note
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