Authored by Mark A. Kellner via The Epoch Times(emphasis ours),
Young men in the United States are more religious than young women for the first time in 25 years,according to a Gallup poll released on Thursday.
Thedatashow that 42 percent of men aged 18 to 29 say religion is “very important” in their lives. That figure stood at 28 percent just two years ago. Young women’s attachment to religion held steady at about 30 percent during the same period.
The 14-point jump among young men represents a sharp departure from typical demographic trends. It has caught the attention, tempered with caution, of researchers who study religion in America.
“The magnitude of the jump they’re talking about [is] humongous—religious importance is up from 28 percent to 42 percent in two years.That’s not how demographics typically work,” Ryan Burge, a political scientist and statistician who studies religious trends, told The Epoch Times. “You don’t see a metric rise by 50 percent in two years.”
The Gallup findings, authored by Frank Newport and Lydia Saad, are based on biennial aggregates of religion data from 2000-2001 through 2024-2025. The 2024-2025 results draw from 4,015 U.S. adults, including 295 men and 145 women aged 18 to 29.
The reversal is confined to the youngest age group. Among adults 30 and older, women remain more religious than men.
At the start of the millennium, young women led young men by 9 percentage points on the importance of religion. That gap widened to 16 points in the early to mid-2000s before narrowing over the next decade.
By the mid-2010s, the difference had shrunk to about 5 points. The latest data mark a clear break.
The shift extends beyond attitudes about the importance of religion. The share of young men reporting monthly—or more frequent—attendance at religious services rose 7 points to 40 percent. That is the highest level since 2012-2013. Young women’s attendance rose three points to 39 percent.
Source: ZeroHedge News
