{"id":365,"date":"2018-05-18T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T09:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2019-01-12T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T09:00:22","slug":"5-facts-about-u-s-evangelical-protestants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/blog\/5-facts-about-u-s-evangelical-protestants\/","title":{"rendered":"5 facts about U.S. evangelical Protestants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. About a quarter (25.4%) of U.S. adults identify with evangelical Protestantism, according to Pew Research Center\u2019s <\/strong>2014 Religious Landscape Study<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. The evangelical Protestant share of the population has dipped slightly in recent years (from 26.3% in 2007 to 25.4% in 2014), but more slowly than the mainline Protestant and Catholic populations. <\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Three-quarters (76%) of evangelical Protestants in the U.S. are white, but <\/strong>the share of evangelicals who are not white is growing<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. On average, evangelical Protestants <\/strong>have somewhat lower levels of educational attainment<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> compared with the U.S. public as a whole.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Half (49%) of evangelical Protestant adults <\/strong>reside in the South<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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