Religion - How Much Do You Know?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/14/map-these-are-the-worlds-least-religious-countries/?tid=sm_fb

    In this article, Rick Noack explains a recent Gallup poll on world religion. Keep in mind, Gallup is considered relatively accurate and unbiased in its polls. As a note, the options were strongly atheist, non religious, religious or unsure. The survey, which focused on 65 countries, found that 63% of the world is religious. China is the least religious country in the world with the highest number of atheists or nonbelievers (90%- most being atheist), while Sweden is the second (76%- equally atheists and nonbelievers). The most religious country is Thailand (94%). Most young people in the world are more religious than their elders, unlike the United States, where the reverse is true. As countries become wealthier and more advanced, they tend to become less religious (here again, America is an extremely obvious exception). Educated people tend to be less religious. America was 56% religious, 33% non religious, 6% atheist, and 5% unsure. This makes it the 41st most religious country (with 1st being most religious) out of 65.
     I find this survey extremely interesting. I feel like I definitely expected the number of religious people to be higher, I guess because people always talk about how the religious majority is forced to concede to a non religious minority, like a '90% obeys the 1%' thing. But it's more like a third of America as opposed to a 1%. Gotta say though, ain't many of those non religious people living in South Dakota. So probably why I thought there weren't many.