What percentage of British are atheist?

Answer 1

The British Social Attitudes poll of more than 3,000 people showed 44% said they had no religious affiliation. This compares with less than 10% in the United States. Two-thirds of 18-24 year-olds in the UK also say they have no religious affiliation. However, these figures would include agnostics, as well as atheists.

(Actually 15% of Americans say they have no religious affiliation.)

AnswerThe above statistics are very interesting, and are probably more accurate than these, which I include for interest. The 2001 census found that about half the population of England and Wales (note: *not* the whole of the UK) said that they were Christian. However, membership of The Church Of England is a well known euphamism in the UK for being agnostic or atheist, and many people still identify with the church for cultural reasons - regardless of their actual beliefs.

7.7% of the population did not answer the question, and 0.7% of the population (390,000 people) claimed to be Jedi - making Jedi a larger religion in the UK than Hinduism.

7.7 million people in England and Wales stated that they have no religion - 14.6% in England, and 18.5% in wales).

Most commentators believe that those figures are well below the true numbers, mainly because of the membership of the Church Of England.

Answer 2

At least 9,104,000 (see the link below to the UK census data). That's more than the Muslims, Hindus, religious Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists and other religions combined, and 15.5% of the population.

Surveys have, however, shown that many people who do not believe in a god still state "Church of England". Many other people gave no answer. So the true number is, in fact, almost certainly higher than that stated in the census data.

Answer 3

In 2001, in a national census, 15% of the population reported having no religion. This will include atheists, agnostics, etc, and has been growing ever since. The current figure would probably be between 16 and 20 percent.
Around 40%