Based on a 2012 survey asking people if they were religious or not, you can see quite a lot of variation between different countries. In none of the surveyed countries did <11% of the population say they were religious but China and Japan came close. Only 14% of the Chinese and 16% of the Japanese identify as religious. In fact, almost half of the Chinese (47%) and almost a third of the Japanese (31%) identify as atheists.
On the other hand, 90% or more of the population report being religious in Ghana (96%), Nigeria (93%), Armenia (92%), Fiji (92%), and Macedonia (90%). The US is in the middle of the pack with 60% of Americans reporting they are religious.
The survey found that as per capita income increases, religiosity declines.
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