{"id":62549,"date":"2017-08-18T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62549"},"modified":"2017-08-19T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T16:12:53","slug":"wef-the-worlds-most-atheistic-places-mapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62549","title":{"rendered":"(WEF) The world\u2019s most atheistic places, mapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>China is the world\u2019s least religious country, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wingia.com\/web\/files\/news\/370\/file\/370.pdf\">a survey by WIN\/Gallup International<\/a>. Only 9% of the country considers itself religious, while 67% claims to be atheist &#8211; more than twice the amount of any other country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>The data, which is based on a survey of more than 66,000 people in 68 countries, suggests a further 23% of Chinese people are non-religious. The results reflect attitudes towards religion in the country, as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/10\/china-targets-parents-religion-rules-xinjiang-161012043739688.html\">education rules introduced in China last year<\/a>\u00a0said parents should not promote hardline religious beliefs in children or make them dress in specific clothing. The new regulations also banned any form of religious activity in schools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p>Sweden, the Czech Republic and the UK are the next least religious countries. In Sweden, 18% of people define themselves as atheist and 55% as non-religious, while the Czech Republic is 25% atheist and 47% non-religious. In the UK, 11% of people claim to be atheist and 58% non-religious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2017\/07\/losing-their-religion-these-are-the-world-s-most-atheistic-countries\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is the world\u2019s least religious country, according to\u00a0a survey by WIN\/Gallup International. Only 9% of the country considers itself religious, while 67% claims to be atheist &#8211; more than twice the amount of any other country. The data, which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62549\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,119,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-globalization","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62583,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62549\/revisions\/62583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}