How Religious is the US Compared to Other Countries?

It depends on what you mean by “religious.”

One of the more reliable findings in the social science research on religion is that Americans, on average, tend to be more religious than people in other developed democracies, from Europe to Canada to Japan. Yet we are markedly less religious than pretty much the rest of the world, including many non-democracies, not-so-developed countries, and most o…