Survey: Americans are more devout than any other developed country

Regardless of the traditional values ​​that make the United States rich and severely eroded since the 1960s , the survey shows that the United States remains a country with a strong religious background and ranks first among the population. Rich owners in the West.

In fact, Americans pray more often, tend to attend religious activities every week and value faith in life more than those in other wealthy Western democratic countries, like Canada and Australia. and most European countries, according to a recent study by the Pew Center.

For example, more than half of adults in the US (55%) say they pray every day, compared with 25% in Canada, 18% in Australia and 6% in the United Kingdom. This rate in Europe averages about 22%.

In fact, in the habit of prayer, Americans are quite similar to people in many developing countries, such as South Africa (52%), Bangladesh (57%) and Bolivia (56%).

In particular, the United States is the only place in 102 countries surveyed with high rates of both prayer and wealth . In all other countries with annual per capita income of more than $ 30,000, the proportion of adults who pray each day is no more than 40%.

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This trend of "going upstream" of America in religious matters has long been curious for many social researchers. For example, the 19th-century French political thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville, discussed in depth the great role of belief in American society in the famous book "Democracy in America." ). Tocqueville argues that those who migrated to America in the early days were Puritan believers , because they wanted to have freedom of religion and cross the sea to the New World. The Puritan stance of migrants has established a solid foundation for democracy in the United States.

But even though the United States has a stronger religious belief than other rich countries, it cannot avoid the tendency of non-religiousism to sweep through the Western world. Previous Pew studies have shown that the number of people who say they believe in God in the US has had a slight but steady decline in recent years.

The report also found that Americans under the age of 40 tend to have less prayer than older people, less to church activities and less self-confidence. All of this is showing a declining trend in religious beliefs in the United States.