Researchers at the Pew Research Center tracked a 16% decline in American Christians between 2007 and 2024, though most of the decline occurred before 2019.

Although down substantially from 2007, 44 percent of Americans said they pray at least once a day, a figure that has remained consistent in the last four years.

Despite a consistent decline in the share of adults in the United States who identified as Christians over the last 17 years, the trend appears to have slowed in the last five years of a long-term

Young people contributed to the shift. “If you’re a young white male these days and you think of yourself as conservative, then being religious is a part of that.”

The decline in the number of people in the United States identifying as Christian has slowed down and might have leveled off, according to a new Pew Research Center poll published Wednesday.