Polls normally ask if a person is religious, or if they are a member of a particular religion or sect. This survey asked a different question -- do you believe in a god, and what kind of god?
It turns out that only 56% of the population believes in the kind of god in the christian bible (or muslim or jewish religious books). That's a much lower number than the percentage of people who say they are members of the christian, muslim, or jewish faiths.
Another 32% say they believe in some kind of higher power or spiritual force. Then about 10% say they don't believe in any kind of god at all.
The number believing in a biblical kind of god is lowest among young people and highest among older people -- and just the opposite is true about the rather amorphous "higher power/spiritual force". The number who don't believe in any kind of god increases with age, and the number believing in no god decreases in age.
The survey also queried Republicans and Democrats. About 70% of Republicans believe in a biblical god, while only 45% of Democrats do. About 14% of Democrats believe in no god, while only 5% of Republicans believe that.
These numbers come from a Pew Research Center survey done between December 4th and 18th of 2017. The poll surveyed 4,729 adults, and has a margin of error of 2.3 points.
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