Racial and ethnic composition among adults who pray daily by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who pray daily by race/ethnicity

% of adults who pray daily who identify as…

Religious traditionWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
Buddhist41%6%27%13%14%110
Catholic57%4%3%35%2%4,275
Evangelical Protestant76%6%2%11%5%6,756
Hindu5%3%88%2%3%102
Historically Black Protestant2%94%< 1%3%1%1,535
Jehovah's Witness37%26%< 1%31%6%219
Jewish82%6%4%6%2%209
Mainline Protestant84%4%1%6%4%3,297
Mormon86%< 1%2%7%5%563
Muslim33%35%23%5%4%160
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")52%19%3%19%7%1,286
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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