Atheism

=== Europe ===
[[File:Europe No Belief enhanced 2010.png|thumb|Percentage of people in various European countries who said: "I don't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force." (2010)<ref name=EB2010>{{cite web |url=http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_341_en.pdf |title=Special Eurobarometer: Biotechnology |page=381 |date=October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215001129/http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_341_en.pdf |archive-date=December 15, 2010}}</ref>]]

According to the 2010 Eurobarometer Poll, the percentage of those polled who agreed with the statement "you don't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force" varied from a high percentage in France (40%), Czech Republic (37%), Sweden (34%), Netherlands (30%), and Estonia (29%); medium-high percentage in Germany (27%), Belgium (27%), UK (25%); to very low in Poland (5%), Greece (4%), Cyprus (3%), Malta (2%), and Romania (1%), with the European Union as a whole at 20%.<ref name="EU">{{cite book |title=Social values, Science and Technology |publisher=Directorate General Research, European Union |year=2010 |pages=207 |url=http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_341_en.pdf |access-date=April 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430163128/http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_225_report_en.pdf |archive-date=April 30, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In a 2012 Eurobarometer poll on discrimination in the European Union, 16% of those polled considered themselves non-believers/agnostics, and 7% considered themselves atheists.<ref>{{citation |title=Discrimination in the EU in 2012 |work=[[Eurobarometer|Special Eurobarometer]] |year=2012 |series=383 |page=233 |url=http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_393_en.pdf |access-date=August 14, 2013 |publisher=[[European Commission]] |location=[[European Union]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202023700/http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_393_en.pdf |archive-date=December 2, 2012}} The question asked was "Do you consider yourself to be&nbsp;...?", with a card showing: Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Other Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist, and non-believer/agnostic. Space was given for Other (Spontaneous) and DK. Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu did not reach the 1% threshold.</ref>

According to a [[Pew Research Center]] survey in 2012, about 18% of Europeans are [[Irreligion|religiously unaffiliated]], including agnostics and atheists.<ref name="Religiously Unaffiliated">{{cite web |url=http://www.pewforum.org/global-religious-landscape-unaffiliated.aspx |title=Religiously Unaffiliated |date=December 18, 2012 |website=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project |access-date=November 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730043126/http://www.pewforum.org/global-religious-landscape-unaffiliated.aspx |archive-date=July 30, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the same survey, the religiously unaffiliated are the majority of the population only in two European countries: Czech Republic (75%) and Estonia (60%).<ref name="Religiously Unaffiliated" />