Out of 148 countries surveyed, Morocco ranked 14th in the category of most religious countries with 97% of Morocco’s population reporting having religious beliefs, according to the latest CEOWORLD report of the World’s Most (And Least) Religious Countries.
The CEOWORLD magazine survey included responses from over 820,000 individuals worldwide. The term “religious” was defined as “faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity, devoted to religious beliefs or observances, or scrupulously and conscientiously faithful.” However, the interpretation of the term may vary from person to person.
The rankings placed Morocco as the third most religious “Arab country” following Yemen (99.1%) and Egypt (97%).
Somalia secured the first spot as the most religious country in the world with 99.8% of its population identifying as religious. Niger and Bangladesh follow closely behind, with 99.7% and 99.5% of their populations, respectively, reporting religious beliefs.
Although the United States guarantees freedom to practice religion in its Constitution, it ranks 104 with only 69% of its population professing to be religious.
The top 10 least religious countries are Finland (28%), the United Kingdom (27%), Japan (24%), Hong Kong (24%), Norway (21%), the Czech Republic (21%), Denmark (19%), Sweden (17%), Estonia (16%), and China (7%).