44% of American adults have either changed their religious affiliation since childhood or abandoned religion altogether. Just 68% of people raised Catholic still identify with their childhood religion, compared with 80% of Protestants and 76% of Jews. 16% of Americans describe themselves as “unaffiliated,” a group that includes both atheists and believers without a denomination.
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
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