Uit een onderzoek van Phil Zuckerman blijkt dat Nederland in de top-20 van meest atheïstische landen aanwezig is. Opvallend en bedroevend in deze lijst is de constatering dat naast ons land er vele andere Europese landen in genoemd worden.
Country | Total Pop.(2004) | % Atheist/ actual # Agnostic/ Nonbeliever in God | (minimum - maximum) | |
1 | Sweden | 8,986,000 | 46-85% | 4,133,560-7,638,100 |
2 | Vietnam | 82,690,000 | 81% | 66,978,900 |
3 | Denmark | 5,413,000 | 43-80% | 2,327,590-4,330,400 |
4 | Norway | 4,575,000 | 31-72% | 1,418,250-3,294,000 |
5 | Japan | 127,333,000 | 64-65% | 81,493,120-82,766,450 |
6 | Czech Republic | 10,246,100 | 54-61% | 5,328,940-6,250,121 |
7 | Finland | 5,215,000 | 28-60% | 1,460,200-3,129,000 |
8 | France | 60,424,000 | 43-54% | 25,982,320-32,628,960 |
9 | South Korea | 48,598,000 | 30%-52% | 14,579,400-25,270,960 |
10 | Estonia | 1,342,000 | 49% | 657,580 |
11 | Germany | 82,425,000 | 41-49% | 33,794,250-40,388,250 |
12 | Russia | 143,782,000 | 24-48% | 34,507,680-69,015,360 |
13 | Hungary | 10,032,000 | 32-46% | 3,210,240-4,614,720 |
14 | Netherlands | 16,318,000 | 39-44% | 6,364,020-7,179,920 |
15 | Britain | 60,271,000 | 31-44% | 18,684,010-26,519,240 |
16 | Belgium | 10,348,000 | 42-43% | 4,346,160-4,449,640 |
17 | Bulgaria | 7,518,000 | 34-40% | 2,556,120-3,007,200 |
18 | Slovenia | 2,011,000 | 35-38% | 703,850-764,180 |
19 | Israel | 6,199,000 | 15-37% | 929,850-2,293,630 |
20 | Canada | 32,508,000 | 19-30% | 6,176,520-9,752,400 |
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