Atheist Statistics 2008

Recent statistics show that not only is Atheism is growing a rate of three times as fast as all the religions of the world combined but also that the safest countries in the world have a positive correlation with atheism. Higher levels of educational achievement and intelligence also have a positive correlation with atheism and atheists are less likely to be criminals and less likely to divorce than the religious.

Taken from: http://www.youtube.com/user/PrexicKehdaki

Sources:
Statistics in regards to Europe came from religious organization called Tearfund.
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_225_report_en.pdf

Statistics in regards to America came from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/743/united-states-religion

Atheism growing came from..
http://www.adherents.com/

Societal Health statistics come from numerous sources, such as The journal of Religion and Society
http://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/2005/2005-11.html

but the specific quotation comes from “The Cambridge Companion to Atheism” by Zuckerman. More information can be found in this video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fEcrW3CUtek

National Academy of Sciences statistics come from a study in the Journal Nature, by Larson & Whitham in 1998.
http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/atheism1.htm

Intelligence and Education statistics come from the Tearfund organization as linked previously as well as DOZENS of studies that can be summed up by Paul Bell in an article in Mensa magazine.
Bell, Paul. “Would you believe it?” Mensa Magazine, Feb. 2002, pp. 12–13

Prison Statistics can be found here..
http://www.holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm

Divorce Statistics can be found here..
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm