How many Americans believe in angels?
Oct. 22nd, 2022 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdiWas curious, so I went looking. Search engines memory-hole the Internet pretty quickly these days, so it was difficult to dig up much, but I figure it's around 5/7 of the population and that it's been pretty consistent for the last few decades.
| Year | Poll | Pollster | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 54% | Gallup | |
| 1994 | 72% | Gallup | |
| 1996 | 72% | Gallup | |
| 2001 | 79% | Gallup | |
| 2001 | 77% | Scripps | |
| 2004 | 78% | Gallup | |
| 2006 | 81% | AP-AOL | |
| 2007 | 75% | Gallup | |
| 2007 | 68% | Pew | |
| 2005–7 | 61% | (21% "probably") | Baylor |
| 2011 | 77% | AP-GfK | |
| 2014 | 77% | AP-GfK | |
| 2016 | 72% | Gallup | |