81% of Americans Believe in God, Down from 92% in 2011

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81% of U.S. adults say they believe in God, down six percentage points from five years ago and the lowest in Gallup’s trend. https://t.co/IZ9b1NC9bc pic.twitter.com/Ky6JC77qy0

— GallupNews (@GallupNews) June 17, 2022

For the 2011 number, see here. Note also that “Gallup has found that Americans are much less likely to attend church, become members of a church or rate themselves as confident in organized religion than to simply believe in God’s existence.”