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The religiously unaffiliated are heavily concentrated in
Asia and the Pacific, where more than three-quarters (76%)
of the world's unaffiliated population resides.
The remainder is in Europe (12%), North America (5%),
Latin America and the Caribbean (4%), sub-Saharan Africa
(2%) and the Middle East and North Africa (less than 1%).
Although a majority of the religiously unaffiliated live in
Asia and the Pacific, only about one-in-five people (21%) in
that region are unaffiliated. More than one-in-six people in
Europe(18%) and North America (17%) are religiously
unaffiliated. The unaffiliated make up smaller shares in the
remaining regions. For instance, less than 1% of those who
live in the Middle East-North Africa region are unaffiliated.

More than six-in-ten (62%) of all religiously unaffiliated
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people live in one country, China. The largest populations
of the religiously unaffiliated outside China are in Japan
(6% of all unaffiliated), the United States (5%), Vietnam (2%)
and Russia (2%).
There are six countries where the religiously unaffiliated
make up a majority of the population: the Czech Republic
(76% are religiously unaffiliated), North Korea (71%),
Estonia (60%), Japan (57%), Hong Kong (56%) and China
(52%).
This report estimates that 16.4% of the total U.S.
population (adults and children) was unaffiliated as of
2010. However, recent Pew Research Center surveys found
that, as of 2012, 19.6% of U.S. adults are unaffiliated. The
different findings reflect both an increase in the percentage
of U.S. adults who are religiously unaffiliated and
differences between the portion of adults and the portion of
children in the U.S. who are unaffiliated. Slightly higher

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