page_title: Demographics of atheism
section_title: Europe
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of atheism / Geographic distribution / Europe
caption_attribution_description: English: Eurobarometer Poll 2010 Percentage of those who agreed to the statement "I don't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force".
context_page_description: Accurate demographics of atheism are difficult to obtain since conceptions of atheism vary across different cultures and languages from being an active concept to being unimportant or not developed. In global studies, the number of people without a religion is usually higher than the number of people without a belief in a deity and the number of people who agree with statements on lacking a belief in a deity is usually higher than the number of people who self-identify as "atheists". According to sociologist Phil Zuckerman, broad estimates of those who have an absence of belief in a deity range from 500 to 750 million people worldwide. Other estimates state that there are 200 million to 240 million self-identified atheists worldwide, with China and Russia being major contributors to those figures. According to sociologists Ariela Keysar and Juhem Navarro-Rivera's review of numerous global studies on atheism, there are 450 to 500 million positive atheists and agnostics worldwide, with China having the most atheists in the world.
context_section_description: According to a 2010 Eurostat Eurobarometer Poll, 51% of European Union citizens responded that "they believe there is a God", whereas 26% answered that "they believe there is some sort of spirit or life force" and 20% said that "they don't believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force" and results were widely varied between different countries.
  According to another Poll about religiosity in the European Union in 2012 by Eurobarometer 16% are Non-believers/Agnostics and 7% are Atheists. 72% of EU citizens are Christians and 2% are Muslims.
  (*) 13% of respondents in Hungary identify as Presbyterian. In Estonia and Latvia, 20%
  and 19%, respectively, identify as Lutherans. And in Lithuania, 14% say they are “just a
  Christian” and do not specify a particular denomination. They are included in the “other”
  category.
  
  (**) Identified as "don't know/refused" from the "other/idk/ref" column are excluded from this statistic.
  
  (***) Figures may not add to subtotals due to rounding.
caption: Percentages of people in European countries with no belief in any sort of spirit, god, or life force (Eurobarometer 2010)
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