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SOCIETY / RELIGION and BELIEFS
List: Top 10 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics
Date: 2004
Source: P Zuckerman - "Atheism: Contemporary Rates and Patterns", The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed. by Michael Martin, Cambridge University Press.
Base: All countries in the world recording population data on religious beliefs.
Notes: The estimates of the number of atheists in North Korea, China and Cuba were noted as unreliable since the people in these nations live under Communist governments which traditionally suppress religious freedom and officially endorse atheism.
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Country
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Population (2004)
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% Atheist / Agnostic/
Nonbeliever in God
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Number of Atheists/ Agnostics
Nonbelievers in God
(minimum - maximum)
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Sweden
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8,986,000
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46 - 85%
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4,133,560 - 7,638,100
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Vietnam
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82,690,000
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81%
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66,978,900
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Denmark
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5,413,000
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43 - 80%
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2,327,590 - 4,330,400
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Norway
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4,575,000
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31 - 72%
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1,418,250 - 3,294,000
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Japan
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127,333,000
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64 - 65%
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81,493,120 -
82,766,450
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Czech Republic
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10,246,100
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54 - 61%
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5,328,940 - 6,250,121
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Finland
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5,215,000
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28 - 60%
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1,460,200 - 3,129,000
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France
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60,424,000
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43 - 54%
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25,982,320 -
32,628,960
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South Korea
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48,598,000
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30 - 52%
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14,579,400 - 25,270,960
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Estonia
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1,342,000
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49%
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657,580
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