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There is a growing group of religiously unaffiliated people in the U.S. The Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study for 2014 shows the growth taking place across genders, age groups and racial and ethnic groups.

Referred to as the religious “nones” – a category used to identify atheists or agnostics or those who say their religion is “nothing in particular”; these people now make up roughly 23% of the U.S. adult population – an 11% increase from 2011 numbers.

Religiously unaffiliated people are more concentrated among young adults. 35% of those born 1981-1996 consider themselves “nones.”