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Religious change in members among major religious groups in the United States 2012

Religious change among major religious groups in the United States in 2012, by gain and loss of members

The data displays the religious change among major religious groups in the U.S. in 2012, by gain and loss of members. In 2012, 31.4% of Americans reported that they were raised Catholic, but 11.8% chose to leave the Catholic church during their life. Considering that about 2.4% of population that were not raised Catholic, chose to enter the Catholic church, the Catholic church suffered a net loss of about 9.4% of their adherents in the surveyed generation.

Catholic	31.4	2.4	11.8	22	63	-9.4
White Mainline Protestant	18.7	4.5	8.3	14.9	56	-3.8
Black Protestant	9.4	0.6	1.5	8.5	84	-0.9
White Evangelical Protestant	20.3	5.6	6	19.9	71	-0.4
Other Christian	9.5	4	3.1	10.4	67	0.9
Non-Christian religious	3.7	2.9	0.9	5.7	76	2
Unaffiliated	7	14.9	3.3	18.6	53	11.6

Religious change in members among major religious groups in the United States 2012

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