People in the UK are less likely to believe in God than the people of almost any other country in the world, a new study suggests.
Belief in God among UK adults has declined by more than one quarter since the 1980s, it finds, but belief in life after death — and belief in hell — has remained almost unchanged in those four decades.
The research was conducted by the Policy Institute at King’s College, London, as part of its World Values Survey: an international programme exploring social, political, economic, religious, and cultural values and attitudes in 90 countries.
In the UK, a random probability sample of 3056 adults was analysed from March to September 2020, of whom 1645 were from England, 523 from Scotland, 437 from Wales, and 446 from Northern Ireland. This data was measured against 24 other countries and compared with results from 1981.
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