The percentages identified below reflect a poll response to the following question: “Is religion important in your daily life?”
You will probably notice that totals do not add up to 100%, and that is because some of the respondents either failed (or refused) to answer and others answered that they didn’t know. It is the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ answers that are tabulated below.
What you may find interesting (and is quite obvious) is that as you work your way down the list toward those countries where people answered more favorably that religion was in fact important in their daily lives you will find the most culturally, technologically and economically backward societies; mainly countries in Africa, Central and South America and the Middle East. These are the countries where Christianity (primarily Catholicism) and Islam rule. No surprise there… TGO
Source: Wikipedia
| Country | Yes, important | No, unimportant |
|---|---|---|
 Estonia |
16% | 78% |
 Sweden |
16.5% | 83% |
 Denmark |
18% | 80.5% |
 Czech Republic |
20.5% | 74.5% |
 Norway |
20.5% | 78% |
 Hong Kong |
23% | 75.5% |
 Japan |
23.5% | 75% |
 United Kingdom |
26.5% | 73% |
 Finland |
28% | 70% |
 France |
29.5% | 69.5% |
 Vietnam |
29.5% | 69.5% |
 Australia |
32% | 67.5% |
 Netherlands |
33% | 66.5% |
 New Zealand |
33% | 66% |
 Belarus |
33% | 57.5% |
 Cuba |
33.5% | 64% |
 Russia |
33% | 60.5% |
 Albania |
32.5% | 62% |
 Bulgaria |
33.5% | 62% |
 Latvia |
39% | 58.5% |
 Belgium |
33% | 57.5% |
 Hungary |
39% | 58.5% |
 Slovenia |
47% | 52.5% |
 Azerbaijan |
49.5% | 48.5% |
 Spain |
49.5% | 50% |
 Taiwan |
45% | 54% |
 Germany |
40.5% | 59% |
 Uruguay |
40.5% | 59% |
 Switzerland |
41.5% | 56% |
 Canada |
42% | 57% |
 South Korea |
42.5% | 55.5% |
 Ukraine |
45.5% | 48.5% |
 Lithuania |
41.5% | 49.5% |
 Slovakia |
46.5% | 51.5% |
 Israel |
49.5% | 49.5% |
 Singapore |
70% | 29% |
 Montenegro |
45.5% | 48% |
 Serbia |
50.5% | 46.5% |
 Kazakhstan |
43% | 48.5% |
 Austria |
55% | 43% |
 Ireland |
53.5% | 46.5% |
 Uzbekistan |
51% | 45.5% |
 Argentina |
66% | 33% |
 Chile |
69.5% | 29.5% |
 Belize |
61.5% | 33% |
 United States |
65% | 34.5% |
 Kyrgyzstan |
72.5% | 25% |
 Moldova |
71.5% | 19% |
 Venezuela |
79% | 20.5% |
 Croatia |
66.5% | 30.5% |
 Greece |
71.5% | 29.5% |
 Armenia |
72.5% | 25% |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
66% | 29.5% |
 Jamaica |
70% | 29.5% |
 Mexico |
72% | 25.5% |
 Portugal |
71.5% | 26% |
 Italy |
71.5% | 26% |
 Kosovo |
63.5% | 31.5% |
 Cyprus |
75% | 24.5% |
 Poland |
74.5% | 19.5% |
 Botswana |
77% | 23% |
 Georgia |
80% | 16% |
 Haiti |
75% | 22.5% |
 Tajikistan |
84.5% | 12.5% |
 Macedonia |
78.5% | 20.5% |
 Trinidad and Tobago |
92% | 8% |
 Romania |
84% | 12.5% |
 Zimbabwe |
87.5% | 12.5% |
 Dominican Republic |
86% | 13.5% |
 Ecuador |
82% | 17.5% |
 India |
79% | 17% |
 Iraq |
86% | 10.5% |
 Nicaragua |
84% | 15% |
 Iran |
82.5% | 15.5% |
 Costa Rica |
79% | 19.5% |
 El Salvador |
83% | 15.5% |
 Kuwait |
92.5% | 5.5% |
 Malaysia |
95.5% | 3.5% |
 Peru |
83.5% | 14.5% |
 Lebanon |
89.5% | 10% |
 Puerto Rico |
84.5% | 13.5% |
 Bolivia |
88.5% | 10.5% |
 Brazil |
86.5% | 13% |
 Burkina Faso |
87.5% | 12% |
 Colombia |
82.5% | 16% |
 South Africa |
84.5% | 15.5% |
 Algeria |
93% | 6.5% |
 Cambodia |
96% | 3.5% |
 Guatemala |
88% | 9% |
 Honduras |
84% | 15.5% |
 Panama |
88% | 10.5% |
 Philippines |
95.5% | 4% |
 Togo |
80% | 13% |
 Ethiopia |
91% | 9% |
 Rwanda |
95% | 4.5% |
 Mozambique |
86% | 14% |
 Palestinian territories |
93% | 6% |
 Paraguay |
91.5% | 7.5% |
 Turkey |
89.5% | 9.5% |
 Burundi |
97.5% | 2.5% |
 Namibia |
91.5% | 8.5% |
 Tunisia |
93% | 5% |
 Uganda |
93% | 7% |
 Angola |
88% | 10.5% |
 Chad |
94% | 6% |
 Ghana |
94.5% | 5% |
 Madagascar |
93% | 7% |
 Nepal |
93% | 6% |
 Benin |
92.5% | 6.5% |
 Cameroon |
95.5% | 4.5% |
 Central African Republic |
94% | 6% |
 Liberia |
94% | 6% |
 Mali |
94.5% | 5.5% |
 Mauritania |
98% | 1.5% |
 Comoros |
96% | 2.5% |
 Nigeria |
95.5% | 2.5% |
 Jordan |
96.5% | 3.5% |
 Kenya |
94% | 6% |
 Sudan |
94% | 6% |
 Thailand |
94% | 5.5% |
 Yemen |
96% | 3.5% |
 Afghanistan |
97% | 3% |
 Guinea |
97% | 3% |
 Laos |
96.5% | 2.5% |
 Myanmar |
96.5% | 3% |
 Niger |
100% | 0% |
 Pakistan |
96.5% | 2.5% |
 Saudi Arabia |
94.5% | 3.5% |
 Zambia |
97% | 3% |
 Côte d’Ivoire |
88% | 12% |
 Democratic Republic of the Congo |
98.5% | 1.5% |
 Djibouti |
98% | 1.5% |
 Malawi |
98.5% | 1.5% |
 Morocco |
98.5% | 1% |
 Senegal |
96.5% | 3.5% |
 Sierra Leone |
98% | 1.5% |
 Tanzania |
96.5% | 3.5 |
 United Arab Emirates |
91% | 8.5% |
 Qatar |
94.5% | 4.5% |
 Bahrain |
95.5% | 3.5% |
 Bangladesh |
100% | 0% |
 Indonesia |
99% | 0% |
 Sri Lanka |
98.5% | 1% |
 Egypt |
98% | 2% |
 Republic of the Congo |
94.5% | 5.5% |
 Somalia |
98.5% | 1.5% |
