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What percentage of American adults consider themselves a very religious person?
15.6% of American adults consider themselves a very religious person - about 16 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.
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15.6
Where this number comes from
- Survey
- General Social Survey
- What it measured
- GSS 2024 item RELPERSN (“R consider self a religious person”), counting responses 1=very religious. Computed from NORC's public-use microdata with the survey weight WTSSNRPS and a Taylor-linearised standard error over the published design variables VSTRAT and VPSU; unweighted n = 3,252.
- Population
- U.S. adults aged 18 and over
- Year
- 2024
- 95% confidence interval
- 13.26% to 17.94% (derived from the published standard error)
NORC at the University of Chicago; public-use microdata, free for research and educational use. Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data
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