Christianity is in a historic decline in the United States, according to new research data.

In a recently released report from the Public Religion Research Institute, 27% claimed no religion in 2022, which is up from 19% in 2012. The study also showed the number of people who identify as white evangelical Protestants has dropped from 23% to 14% since 2006, while white Catholics have declined from 16% to 13%.

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Additional data from the General Social Survey by NORC, the research organization at the University of Chicago, found that only half of respondents say they are confident in the existence of God — a decline from more than 60% in 2008.

NORC data also showed church membership and attendance have declined for decades, now reaching the highest figure recorded in five decades.

Pew Research Center data also indicate that those who identify as Christian have declined from 90% of U.S. adults in the 1990s to roughly two-thirds currently, with a majority of the change coming from those raised in the church becoming dissociated as they have grown up.

“They’re not saying night prayers, morning prayers, taking their kids to church,” Thomas Groome, a theology and religious education professor at Boston College, said, according to a report. “Whatever religion we have going forward will be by persuasion and choice and not by inherited identity.”

Researchers are contending, however, that the statistics are not an indication that people are not spiritual. NORC data showed only 7% of people said they do not believe in God.

“Belief is very stubborn in America today,” Ryan Burge, a faith scholar and political scientist at Eastern Illinois University, said.

Groome also noted that while church attendance has long been the gauge for faith, it is not as reliable in the present culture.

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“Assuming that church attendance is the measure of faith, that notion is becoming obsolete,” Groome said. “We’ve always used church attendance as the hallmark of the faith in our people, and I don’t think they’re synonymous.”

The NORC’s General Social Survey collected data between May and December of 2022 using a multi-mode design. The PRRI report surveyed 5,872 adults across all 50 states in the U.S. in August 2022, producing data with a margin of error of plus or minus 1.86 percentage points.