The “steady decline” of Americans embracing Christianity has halted due to an increase in young people, a new referendum show shows.
Pew Research study Released Wednesday, 62% of Americans are somehow referred to as Christians, and the American Christian population has been “relatively stable” for the past five years. This decline was partially stopped in 2023-2024 by an increase in generation Z and older millennial Americans who identify with Christianity.
Six percent of Americans, ages 18 to 24, were called Christians on the ballot at 51% compared to 2023, while Americans, ages 33 to 44, reached their highest in the group at 56% since 2020.
78% of Americans in the Pew Research Center’s 2007 poll said they were Christians before falling to 71% in 2014 and 62% today. The overall population of Christianity has been “hovering” “between 60% and 64%” since 2019, the organization said.
Meanwhile, the proportion of Americans who “pray every day” and “attend religious service” [at least] Monthly” has been staying in the mid-40s and early 30s for the past few years, respectively. However, within Generation Z, daily prayers increased by 8 points to 28%, with “religiously irrelevant” Americans of that age group falling by 5 points.
A new study from Pew Research found that the number of people identifying as Christians is no longer decreasing.
This rise among Christians comes primarily from adults born in the 1980s (old millennials) and those born between 2000 and 2006 (old Gen-Z). pic.twitter.com/kiljmalorz
– Ryan James Gardsky (@Ryangirdusky) February 26, 2025
The survey also showed American Christians. Recruitment It is not a traditional position on some social issues. Over half agree that “homosexuality should be accepted by society”, “same-sex marriage should be legal”, and abortion should allow “most/everything.” All of these results represent socially free changes over the past decade. (Related: Trump’s appointee’s alma mater removes congratulatory posts after receiving “hostile comments”)
However, several American Christians in the poll said the acceptance of transgenderism in society was a “bad change” at 47%, while evangelical Protestants are the strongest against it at 64%. More than half of Mormons, half of Orthodox Christians and more than 35% of Catholics said the same thing.
Pew Research said young Americans are generally more likely to grow up “as a religious person” and identify with Christianity than the older ones. In other words, if the latest polls see growth among young people, “it could further reduce the future of America’s religious landscape.”
The survey included 36,908 US adults, with an overall error of 0.8%.
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