20 percent of adults have left their childhood religion in many countries, study shows

NEW YORK – A new study has found that in many countries around the world 20 percent or more of all adults have left their childhood religion, with Christianity and Buddhism being the religions that have experienced the largest losses.

Further, the study found that most of the religious switching in each country surveyed has been by people who were raised in religion and are now religiously unaffiliated, and the most religious disaffiliation is from those who were raised Christian.

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