Personal value statistics: Religion

Religion appeared in the ranked ten of 11.3% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 40th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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Religion

I base my life on my religious beliefs and values. I find guidance in my faith.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 40th of 62 values.: 11.3%
First placeof assessments put it first. 4th of 62 on this measure.: 4.5%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 61% of those who rank it.: 7.0%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 3.6

In the overall ranking religion sits just below Passion (11.4%) and just above Acceptance (11.2%).

How the Popularity of Religion Has Changed

In 2020 religion appeared in 9.5% of assessments and ranked 47th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 13.1% and ranked 34th, a rise of 3.6 percentage points.

Pick a measure, and read it by year or month by month. A month holds a few thousand assessments, so it moves more than a year does. The gaps are months the archive has no data for.

Religion, year by year

Each rank is among the 62 values that year, by appearance rate. The arrow is its move from the year before.

Religion by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
Year	Assessments	Appearance rate	Rank	First place	Top three	Average position
2020	84,378	9.5%	47th	3.4%	5.6%	3.8
2021	224,096	9.3%	47th	3.5%	5.5%	3.7
2022	179,271	9.4%	46th▲1	3.5%	5.6%	3.7
2023	397,249	10.2%	43rd▲3	4.0%	6.2%	3.6
2024	460,244	12.1%	37th▲6	4.8%	7.4%	3.6
2025	449,233	12.5%	37th	5.1%	7.7%	3.5
2026 so far	304,533	13.1%	34th▲3	5.4%	8.4%	3.4

2020 holds 6 months of data and 2022 holds 7 months of data, so their figures cover part of the year. 2026 covers January to September 2026.

Religion by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Egypt rank religion most often, at 26.2%, and those in Hong Kong SAR China least often, at 3.8%.

Country is recorded for the assessments from December 2025 to September 2026, so this section reads those 272,982 assessments and compares each country with all of them.

Where religion is ranked most often

12.8% of participants rank religion in their top ten, from 26.2% in Egypt to 3.8% in Hong Kong SAR China. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

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Appearance rate of religion by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Egypt	3,089	26.2%	+13.4	12th of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	24.6%	+11.8	10th of 62
South Africa	2,608	20.1%	+7.3	16th of 62
Indonesia	1,533	18.5%	+5.7	21st of 62
United Arab Emirates	481	17.9%	+5.1	20th of 62
United States	154,508	15.5%	+2.7	24th of 62
Brazil	373	15.0%	+2.2	29th of 62
Malaysia	1,057	13.0%	+0.2	38th of 62
Mexico	941	11.4%	−1.4	40th of 62
Philippines	5,645	10.6%	−2.2	38th of 62
Canada	18,667	10.0%	−2.8	44th of 62
Singapore	2,481	8.9%	−3.9	45th of 62
New Zealand	5,381	7.8%	−5.0	52nd of 62
Australia	22,203	7.8%	−5.0	51st of 62
Italy	564	7.6%	−5.2	51st of 62
Romania	1,535	7.5%	−5.3	52nd of 62
India	7,202	7.0%	−5.8	56th of 62
France	667	6.9%	−5.9	48th of 62
Poland	423	6.1%	−6.7	51st of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	5.7%	−7.1	56th of 62
Ireland	385	5.5%	−7.3	56th of 62
Germany	2,274	4.7%	−8.1	58th of 62
Netherlands	2,246	4.3%	−8.5	59th of 62
Switzerland	1,067	4.3%	−8.5	59th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China	369	3.8%	−9.0	60th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 12.8%

Religion by Age

Religion is ranked less often with age, from 15.3% of assessments among participants under 18 to 13.8% among those 65 and over, about 1.1 points per band.

Age is an optional question after the ranking, so this section reads the 66,624 assessments from December 2025 to September 2026 whose participants gave one. A difference between bands mixes what changes as people age with what differs between generations.

Appearance rate of religion by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	15.3%	+3.5	28th of 62
18–24	15,203	13.2%	+1.5	37th of 62
25–34	14,080	9.2%	−2.6	49th of 62
35–44	11,071	9.2%	−2.5	48th of 62
45–54	7,261	10.0%	−1.7	43rd of 62
55–64	3,296	11.7%	+0.0	39th of 62
65 and over	1,098	13.8%	+2.0	33rd of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 11.7%

Religion by Gender

Men rank religion more often than women, by 0.8 percentage points.

Gender is optional too, asked beside age, so this section reads the 64,656 assessments from December 2025 to September 2026 whose participants gave one. “Prefer not to say” is counted in no group.

Appearance rate of religion by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	11.6%	−0.2	42nd of 62
Men	25,478	12.4%	+0.6	41st of 62
Non-binary	1,210	3.6%	−8.2	59th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 11.8%

About These Figures

Every figure on this page is a share of completed assessments on Personalvalu.es, read from the same aggregates as the Global Values Research. The appearance rate is how often religion is among a participant's ten most important values. It is not a score, and a difference between groups describes the participants in them without explaining it.

How the aggregates are built, and why some countries and groups are left out, is set out in the methodology. Month-by-month figures for every value are in the monthly archive.

Statistics for every value

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