Educational distribution among who believe in Heaven by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among who believe in Heaven by educational group

% of who believe in Heaven who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Catholic46%28%16%10%6,050
Evangelical Protestant44%35%14%7%7,409
Historically Black Protestant52%33%9%5%1,751
Jehovah's Witness63%27%8%2%125
Jewish27%29%22%22%287
Mainline Protestant39%32%18%12%4,658
Mormon27%40%23%11%624
Muslim37%27%22%14%202
Orthodox Christian28%37%22%14%138
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")53%32%10%5%2,420
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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