“Young Black Adults Less Protestant than Their Elders” (2021)

“Young Black Adults Less Protestant than Their Elders” (2021)

Topic 4.16

Besheer Mohamed and Kiana Cox, “Young Black Adults Less Protestant than Their Elders” in Pew Report on Faith Among Black Americans (2021)

  Protestant % Catholic % Other Christians % Non-Christian faiths % Unaffiliated %
All Black adults 66 6 3 3 21
Men 60 7 3 3 26
Women 70 5 3 3 18
Generation Z 52 9 4 5 28
Millennial 55 6 3 4 33
Generation X 67 6 3 3 21
Baby Boomer 76 6 4 2 11
Silent Generation* 83 6 4 1 5
U.S. born 68 5 3 3 22
African born 55 20 8 10 6
Caribbean born 57 15 2 3 23
Some college or less 66 5 4 3 22
College graduate 68 9 2 4 18
Black, non-Hispanic 69 5 3 3 19
Multiracial 41 11 4 6 38
Black Hispanic 35 24 2 6 33
All U.S. adults 42 21 3 6 27

*This includes a very small number of those in the Greatest Generation (born before 1928).

Note: Those who did not answer are not shown. 

Source: Survey conducted November 9, 2019–June 3, 2020, from Besheer Mohamed and Kiana Cox, “Young Black adults less Protestant than their elders,” in Faith Among Black Americans, Pew Research Center, February 16, 2021. Read the full report on the Pew Research Center website.