Religious tradition among adults ages 65 and older by belief in God (2014) Switch to: Belief in God among adults ages 65 and older by religious group
% of adults ages 65 and older who are…
Belief in God | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Believe in God; absolutely certain | < 1% | 25% | 36% | < 1% | 7% | 1% | 1% | 21% | 2% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | 6,253 |
Believe in God; fairly certain | 1% | 31% | 15% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 5% | 30% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 13% | 1% | 1,640 |
Believe in God; not too/not at all certain | 2% | 19% | 7% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 11% | 22% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 33% | 1% | 368 |
Believe in God; don't know | 1% | 27% | 16% | < 1% | 6% | < 1% | 3% | 34% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 11% | 1% | 131 |
Do not believe in God | 2% | 4% | 2% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 9% | 6% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | 70% | 2% | 707 |
Other/don't know if they believe in God | 1% | 13% | 10% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 7% | 16% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 5% | 1% | 43% | 2% | 228 |
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