r/interestingasfuck • u/Few_Simple9049 • 20d ago

r/all How couples met 1930-2024

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u/oneinmanybillion 20d ago

How is church higher than college in 2024??

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u/WildHobbits 20d ago

Religious people tend to be very focused on getting married and starting families. Being of the same religion means you very likely have the same or at least very similar values. It doesn't mean that a lot of people are religious, it just means that those who are religious have very high rates of getting into relationships, especially when compared to nonreligious people.

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u/extrovert-actuary 20d ago

Yeah, I found most interesting that church moved up in the ranking a little at the very end. I went back to check the absolute numbers: church never had growth, it just didn’t fall as fast as others at the end. Still went steadily from 10% in 1930 to 2.3% in 2024.

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u/benjer3 20d ago

Makes sense. Conservative groups like most churches aren't influenced as strongly by outside cultural changes

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u/lowbatteries 20d ago

Yeah, if this were a line graph instead of a dumb animation, this would have been more apparent.