Trends in Atheism From Scienceandreligiontoday.com

Check these statistics out from scienceandreligiontoday.com about trends in belief and disbelief in god. It seems that between 1998 and 2008, Western as well as Eastern Europe continue their trends towards atheism. According to these statistics, in the U.S. there is a slight trend towards a decrease in certainty that god exists, as well as a decrease in the percentage who disbelieve in god. Such anomalies can be explained in the article below.

Link: http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2012/05/30/is-atheism-increasing-at-the-expense-of-theism/

	% Don’t believe in God	% Theists overall	% No doubt God exists
	1998           2008	1998          2008	1998           2008
Great Britain	9.6              17.7	46.2           36	22.5            16.8
Austria	6.8              9.3	51.3           40.8	32.4            20.8
Netherlands	17.2            19.8	44.2           36.7	26.4            21.1
Australia	10.2            15.6	52.2           43.5	28.6            25.1
Norway	11.7            17.7	42.5           37	18.4            15
Ireland	2.4              4	77.3           67.5	49.8            45.1
New Zealand	7.9              12.5	52.9           46.4	30.9            28.2
Spain	8.6              9.7	64.7           59.5	45.8            39.2
Italy	4.1              5.3	73.5           69.5	48               42.9
Sweden	16.8            19.5	25.8           24.9	12.3            10.3
France	19.1            21.9	38.8           37.3	20.1            17.5
Denmark	14.7            18.4	34              33.4	13.6            13.4
United States	3.2              2.8	77.5           78.2	62.8            61.3
Switzerland	4.3              8.5	44.5           45.1	28.3            28.8
Germany west	12.1            10.5	41.3           48.1	23.4            27.2
Germany east	54               53	15.7           16.5	9.4              8
Japan	10.6            8.7	13.2           16.4	4                 4.4
Northern Ireland	3.7              6.8	74.4           67.4	50               45.2
Portugal	1.9              4	84.8           72.9	60               54.4
Czech Republic	20.3            37.3	30.4           23.9	17.1            23.9
Hungary	12.8            15.3	51.6           42.4	31.1            23.2
Latvia	9.2              18.3	38.9           36.9	22.9            21.7
Poland	2.4              3.3	81             76.4	70.5            62.9
Russia	19.7            6.1	40.2           58.2	23.8            33.9
Slovakia	11.1            10.4	56.7           59.8	40.8            41.6
Slovenia	14.2            13.6	39.4           40.7	22.9            24.2
Chile	1.5              1.7	91.4           90.5	81.4            82.3
Cyprus	1.6              1.9	84.8           70.2	65               59
Philippines	0.7              0.8	82.3           92.5	79               82.7