Today on Bill O’Reilly’s radio show he was talking during the second hour about atheism, tonight he will be interviewing Richard Dawkins on his television show. He listed some interesting numbers on the rates of atheism/agnosticism in the nations of the World. I am not sure what statistics he used but here is a list that is pretty similar though some of the different polling has lead to a few instances where the range is probably too wide to be really accurate but still indicative of a pretty high percentage. Here is the chart that appears in Atheism: Contemporary Rates and Patterns -- THIS CHAPTER IS FORTH-COMING IN THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ATHEISM, EDITED BY MICHAEL MARTIN, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005
Below is a list of the top fifty countries containing the largest percentage of people who identify as atheist, agnostic, or non-believer in God.
| | Country | Total Pop.(2004) | % Atheist/actual # Agnostic/Nonbeliever in God | (minimum - maximum) |
| 1 | Sweden | 8,986,000 | 46-85% | 4,133,560-7,638,100 |
| 2 | Vietnam | 82,690,000 | 81% | 66,978,900 |
| 3 | Denmark | 5,413,000 | 43-80% | 2,327,590-4,330,400 |
| 4 | Norway | 4,575,000 | 31-72% | 1,418,250-3,294,000 |
| 5 | Japan | 127,333,000 | 64-65% | 81,493,120-82,766,450 |
| 6 | Czech Republic | 10,246,100 | 54-61% | 5,328,940-6,250,121 |
| 7 | Finland | 5,215,000 | 28-60% | 1,460,200-3,129,000 |
| 8 | France | 60,424,000 | 43-54% | 25,982,320-32,628,960 |
| 9 | South Korea | 48,598,000 | 30%-52% | 14,579,400-25,270,960 |
| 10 | Estonia | 1,342,000 | 49% | 657,580 |
| 11 | Germany | 82,425,000 | 41-49% | 33,794,250-40,388,250 |
| 12 | Russia | 143,782,000 | 24-48% | 34,507,680-69,015,360 |
| 13 | Hungary | 10,032,000 | 32-46% | 3,210,240-4,614,720 |
| 14 | Netherlands | 16,318,000 | 39-44% | 6,364,020-7,179,920 |
| 15 | Britain | 60,271,000 | 31-44% | 18,684,010-26,519,240 |
| 16 | Belgium | 10,348,000 | 42-43% | 4,346,160-4,449,640 |
| 17 | Bulgaria | 7,518,000 | 34-40% | 2,556,120-3,007,200 |
| 18 | Slovenia | 2,011,000 | 35-38% | 703,850-764,180 |
| 19 | Israel | 6,199,000 | 15-37% | 929,850-2,293,630 |
| 20 | Canada | 32,508,000 | 19-30% | 6,176,520-9,752,400 |
| 21 | Latvia | 2,306,000 | 20-29% | 461,200-668,740 |
| 22 | Slovakia | 5,424,000 | 10-28% | 542,400-1,518,720 |
| 23 | Switzerland | 7,451,000 | 17-27% | 1,266,670-2,011,770 |
| 24 | Austria | 8,175,000 | 18-26% | 1,471,500-2,125,500 |
| 25 | Australia | 19,913,000 | 24-25% | 4,779,120-4,978,250 |
| 26 | Taiwan | 22,750,000 | 24% | 5,460,000 |
| 27 | Spain | 40,281,000 | 15-24% | 6,042,150-9,667,440 |
| 28 | Iceland | 294,000 | 16-23% | 47,040-67,620 |
| 29 | New Zealand | 3,994,000 | 20-22% | 798,800-878,680 |
| 30 | Ukraine | 47,732,000 | 20% | 9,546,400 |
| 31 | Belarus | 10,311,000 | 17% | 1,752,870 |
| 32 | Greece | 10,648,000 | 16% | 1,703,680 |
| 33 | North Korea | 22,698,000 | 15% ( ? ) | 3,404,700 |
| 34 | Italy | 58,057,000 | 6-15% | 3,483,420-8,708,550 |
| 35 | Armenia | 2,991,000 | 14% | 418,740 |
| 36 | China | 1,298,848,000 | 8-14% ( ? ) | 103,907,840-181,838,720 |
| 37 | Lithuania | 3,608,000 | 13% | 469,040 |
| 38 | Singapore | 4,354,000 | 13% | 566,020 |
| 39 | Uruguay | 3,399,000 | 12% | 407,880 |
| 40 | Kazakhstan | 15,144,000 | 11-12% | 1,665,840-1,817,280 |
| 41 | Estonia | 1,342,000 | 11% | 147,620 |
| 42 | Mongolia | 2,751,000 | 9% | 247,590 |
| 43 | Portugal | 10,524,000 | 4-9% | 420,960-947,160 |
| 44 | United States | 293,028,000 | 3-9% | 8,790,840-26,822,520 |
| 45 | Albania | 3,545,000 | 8% | 283,600 |
| 46 | Argentina | 39,145,000 | 4-8% | 1,565,800-3,131,600 |
| 47 | Kyrgyzstan | 5,081,000 | 7% | 355,670 |
| 48 | Dominican Rep. | 8,834,000 | 7% | 618,380 |
| 49 | Cuba | 11,309,000 | 7% ( ? ) | 791,630 |
| 50 | Croatia | 4,497,000 | 7% | 314,790 |
(?): certainty/validity on these figures is relatively low
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