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May 12, 2015 · Many Protestant denominational families have seen their share of the U.S. population fall since 2007. Baptists now account for approximately 15% of the adult population, down from 17% in 2007. Methodists and Lutherans also have declined by more than a full percentage point in recent years.
- Benjamin Wormald
Background. Doctrine. Key figures. Organizations. Christianity portal. v. t. e. Approximately 15.3% of Americans identify as Baptist, making Baptists the second-largest religious group in the United States, after Roman Catholics. [1] .
Explore religious groups in the U.S. by tradition, family and denomination. Christian 70.6%. Evangelical Protestant 25.4%. Baptist Family (Evangelical Trad.) 9.2%. Southern Baptist Convention 5.3%. Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) 2.5%. Missionary Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) < 0.3%. Conservative Baptist Association of America.
Jul 8, 2021 · More than one-third of young Americans (36%) are religiously unaffiliated, and the remainder are Jewish (2%), Muslim (2%), Buddhist (1%), Hindu (1%), or another religion (1%). The proportion of white Christians increases proportionally as age increases.
- Dalia Fahmy
- The Southern Baptist Convention is the biggest Protestant denomination in the United States, accounting for 5.3% of the U.S. adult population, according to Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study.
- The total number of Southern Baptists in the U.S. – and their share of the population – is falling. When the first Religious Landscape Study was conducted in 2007, Southern Baptists accounted for 6.7% of the U.S. adult population (compared with 5.3% in 2014).
- The Southern Baptist Convention is not a centralized church like the Roman Catholic Church, but a fellowship of congregations. Together, these congregations teach that the Bible contains no errors and that personal acceptance of Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation.
- The vast majority of Southern Baptists are white (85%), with few black members (6%) and even fewer Latinos (3%), according to the 2014 Religious Landscape Study.
Adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are 65% of the total population in Utah, 25% in Idaho, and 12% in Wyoming. They are also more than 5% of the total population in Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii. Together, these six states account for 50% of the church’s U.S. adherents.
Jun 11, 2021 · Even today, some 176 years later, almost three-quarters of Southern Baptists continue to live in the South, more than double the percentage of the overall U.S. population in that region.
