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Jews

0.19 %

40.89 %

58.92 %

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Virtual Religion Index

Religions of the World

Sects of Lebanon

NB: Sects listed by Religion & less # of followers

طوائف لبنان

Les Juifs du Liban

CyberWadi State

  Jehovah's Witnesses : Watch Tower Society

Coptic Orthodox Church Network

The Chaldean Church of the East

The National Evangelical Church of Beirut

Armenian Orthodox Chruch

Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon

Orthodox Legacy

L'Eglise Maronite - Maronite Church

Association of Islamic Charitable Project

National site not evailable

 The International Web Site of Baha'i Faith

Baha'i International Community

The Institute of Druze Studies

The Shiaa Homepage

موقع الإسلام

Al Azhar - Islamic Research Academy

Atheist

ملحدون

National site not evailable

Athéisme - Vivre sans croyances, sans dieu(x) et sans religion

Atheism - how to live without God, religion and beliefs

Atheism

List_of_atheists

Statistics

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• As some governments have strongly promoted atheism, whilst others have strongly condemned it, atheism may be either over reported or underreported for different countries. There is a great deal of room for debate as to the accuracy of any method of measurement, as the opportunity for misreporting (intentionally or not) a belief system without an organized structure is high. Also, many surveys on religious identification ask people to identify themselves as "agnostics" or "atheists", which is potentially confusing, since these terms are not uniformly interpreted, with many people identifying themselves as both.

• The following surveys are in chronological order, but as they are different studies with different methodologies it would be inaccurate to infer trends on the prevalence of atheism from them:

• A 1995 survey [15] (http://www.zpub.com/un/pope/relig.html) attributed to the Encyclopedia Britannica indicates that non-religious are about 14.7% of the world's population, and atheists around 3.8%.

• In the 2001 Australian Census [16] (http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/9658217eba753c2cca256cae00053fa3?OpenDocument) 15.5% of respondents ticked 'no religion' and a further 11.7% either did not state their religion or were deemed to have described it inadequately (there was a popular and successful campaign at the time to have people describe themselves as Jedi).

• A 2002 survey by Adherents.com [17]  (http://adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html) estimates the proportion of the world's people who are "secular, non-religious, agnostics and atheists" as about 14%.

• In a 2003 poll in France, 54% of those polled identified themselves as "faithful", 33% as atheist, 14% as agnostic, and 26% as "indifferent". [18]  (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35454.htm)

• A 2004 survey by the BBC [19]  (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwtgod/3518375.stm) in 10 countries showed the proportion of the population "who don't believe in God nor in a higher power" varying between 0% and 30%, with an average close to 10% in the countries surveyed. About 8% of the respondents stated specifically that they consider themselves to be atheists.

• A 2004 survey by the CIA in the World Factbook [20]  (http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html#People) estimates about 12.5% of the world's population is non-religious, and about 2.4% are atheists.

• A 2004 survey by the Pew Research Center [21]  (http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=757) showed that in the United States, 12% of people under 30 and 6% of people over 30 could be characterized as non-religious.

• The country with the highest percentage of self-described atheists (59%) is probably the Czech Republic, although surveys have suggested the level may be even higher in the former East Germany.

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