Figure 14

The responses of participants from different religious backgrounds to the following statement: ‘Having a religion reduces the probability of developing dementia in the future’. Some Christians (46.8 percent), Muslims (51.8 percent), Hindus (58.6 percent), Buddhists (59.3 percent), Freethinkers (82.9 percent), Taoists (68.9 percent) and others (66.7 percent) disagreed with the proposition that religion reduces the probability of developing dementia in the future, whereas other Christians (28.4 percent), Muslims (24.1 percent), Hindus (15.9 percent), Buddhists (16.5 percent), Freethinkers (3.1 percent), Taoists (13.3 percent) and others (0.0 percent) agreed.