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The belief that life doesn’t end after you die isn’t unusual. Many religions and belief systems worldwide believe that your existence persists in some form after the death of your physical body.
But which of the world’s nations has the highest percentage of people who believe in an afterlife? Based on a World Values Survey for 2017 to 2022, Reddit user theworldmaps mapped the percentage of each country’s population that believes in life after death (where information was available).
Belief in an afterlife is most substantial in Bangladesh, Morocco, Libya, Turkey, and Iran, where almost everybody (90% or more) thinks there’s life after death.
The nation with the lowest percentage of believers is China, where just 11.5% of people share a faith in the existence of an afterlife.
In Europe, the highest percentage of the population believes in life after death in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as in Poland. While in Albania and Bulgaria, only 22.7 percent and 25 percent of the population, respectively, believe in life after death.
Probably because religion was banned under Enver Hoxha and many families didn’t teach religion to their children. Most of the religious population just identifies as religious, nothing more.
Could you crunch the numbers and provide an overall percentage of the world that believes in an afterlife?
Albania has a large religious population, why would they be so low? Is it just a matter of how it’s defined?
Probably because religion was banned under Enver Hoxha and many families didn’t teach religion to their children. Most of the religious population just identifies as religious, nothing more.