Worldwide Google searches for the term "atheist" - 13 years and 7 months after the beginning of the New Atheism movement - Searches are down

Google Trends shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume. 

In 2004, the New Atheist Sam Harris published his book The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.  The publishing of this book is one of the milestones as far as the beginnings of the New Atheism movement. The graphic atop this article features the four men who were dubbed the "four horsemen" of the New Atheism movement (In the graphic above, counterclockwise from the upper left picture, the four horseman are Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett respectively).  

Featured below n the Google trends graph for the worldwide searches for the term "atheist"  (the red graph), the graph has a value of 44 in 2004.   In the same graph below, the term atheist has a current value of 43. So about 13 years and 7 months since the beginning of the New Atheism movement, the volume of searches is down since the start of the New Atheism movement. 

Why are the worldwide searches for the term "atheist" especially important?  Eric Kaufmann is a professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London and author. His academic research specialty is how demographic changes affect religion/irreligion and politics. Kaufmann is an agnostic.  Kaufmann told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."

Worldwide searches for atheism and agnosticism searches - Google trends

USA searches for atheism and agnosticism searches - Google trends

In the Google trends graph for USA searches for the term "atheist" below (the red graph), the graph has a value of 32 in 2004.   In the same graph below, the term atheist has a current value of 37.  

UK searches for atheism and agnosticism searches - Google trends

In the Google trends graph for UK searches for the term "atheist" below (the red graph), the graph has a value of 17 in 2004.   In the same graph below, the term atheist has a current value of 23.  

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Graphic obtained from: Wikimedia - Four Horsemen

Description	English: "The Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse": Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris.
Date	29 August 2014, 17:56:44
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