User:Cjf006/Christianity in the United States

As the decline of Christianity continues to happen in the United States, the rise of Nondenominational Christianity and non-religious population comes to life. Nondenominational or unaffiliated have become a growing group in the United States by being the second largest in the country, with nearly 43,100,300 people. Dr. Gina Zurlo believes that this number will continues to rise due to the fact that many millennials today are staying out of the church. From 1900 to 2020 the non-religious population rose from 1.3% to 20%. Documented and undocumented immigrants from Latin America helped keep the United States in the race for the country in the world with the most Christians (244 million Christians in 2020). Christianity is also one of the biggest Religious Groups in the world with over 2 billion followers.

There is also a trend in religion based on gender. In the United States, women are both more likely to say that religion is important to them and that they pray daily. Which this may come to a shock because only men are allowed to be in clergy. However, the numbers are pretty close together being 60% for women and 47% for men.

The table below shows the median age of Religious Groups in the United States. We can see in the table that the Unaffiliated Religious Group tends to be of the younger population, with a median age of 38. The highest age being 56 for White Evangelical Protestant. The median age of most of the religious groups has increased slightly since 2013, excluding White Mainline Protestants and Jewish Americans. There are many different branches to Christianity, the most important being: Orthodox, Protestant, and Roman Catholic. These have all came to light because of the many different disagreements people have had, as well as the interpretations of Christianity.