5 Least Religious Countries in the World

A recent report correlates religiosity with standards of living. The second of a two-part series

By U.S. News Staff

February 11, 2009 RSS Feed Print
  1. Estonia — 14 percent of residents said religion is an important part of their daily life
  2. Sweden — 17 percent said religion is an important part of their daily life
  3. Denmark — 18 percent
  4. Norway — 20 percent
  5. Czech Republic — 21 percent

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Source: Gallup

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The more religious a country is, the less seriously I regard it.

BaffledHuman 3:29AM August 23, 2011

@Stephanie of CT - Don't quit your day job.

Sean of LA 5:05PM July 04, 2011

In all walks of daily life, we usually seeing many believers, they argue for their GODS,they justify their meanigles rituals, costoms. they, most of them are highly

educated without scientific concious, they also studied science,But they strongly

beleive in a creator, they believe in sacred books like holy bible, holy quran,holy

bhagavath githain blindly. they engaged in their daily life with the help offanaticism .

manesh p of IN 9:39PM June 23, 2011

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