Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says

Decades of census data, alongside a mathematical model, suggest religion in nine secular countries is being driven to extinction…. The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. Nonlinear dynamics is invoked to explain a wide range of physical phenomena in which a number of factors play a part….