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Pew: 1 in 10 Adults Globally Leave Childhood Religions, Buddhists Top List, by Hannah Hiesteron – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Hannah Hiesteron, Catholic Vote, July 7, 2025

About one in 10 adults under 55 years old have left their childhood religion, with Buddhists the most likely to disaffiliate or switch to another religion, a June study from the Pew Research Center discovered.

Pew analyzed surveys from 117 different countries and territories to calculate the rates of “religious switching” — the numbers of those under 55 who changed their religious identity after childhood or became religiously unaffiliated. Pew found that young adults were more likely than older adults to switch their religion.

The study investigated the retention and religious switching rates for Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and religiously unaffiliated people, finding that 91% of adults across the world who grew up religious — or nonreligious — still belong to their childhood religion. Hinduism and Islam have the highest retention rates, Pew discovered, with just 1% of both denominations switching religions as adults. ..

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