[[File:Flag of Germany.JPG|thumbnail|250px|In 2014, The Local published the article ''Alcoholism in [[Germany]] rises by a third'' which stated: "Research from Munich health research institute IFT released on Thursday showed 1.8 million people in Germany were alcoholics – up by 36 percent from 1.3 million in 2006. A further 1.6 million drink a lot although are not addicted."<ref>[http://www.thelocal.de/20140110/alcoholism-in-germany-rises-by-a-third Alcoholism in Germany rises by a third], The Local, Published: 10 Jan 2014 16:51 GMT+01:00</ref>]]
[[Germany]] is one of the most [[Atheism|atheistic]] countries in the world and the website adherents.com reports that 41-49% of Germans are [[agnosticism|agnostics]]/atheists/non-believers in God.<ref>[http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics(Zuckerman, 2005)]</ref> In addition, Germany has the highest rates of belief in [[evolution]] in the [[world]].<ref>[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21329204.html Photo: Evolution Less Accepted in U.S. Than Other Western Countries, Study Finds]</ref> In 2005, it was estimated that 70% of Germans believed in evolution.<ref>[http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=507 Evolutionary belief statistics]</ref>
== Atheistic Germany and loneliness ==
In 2013, Spiegal Online International reported:
More than 2 million men and women in Germany over the age of 80 live alone, and most of them ended up isolated when their spouses died. Experts anticipate that their numbers will grow considerably thanks to today's increasing life expectancy. A study by Germany's Allensbach Institute finds that senior citizens in Germany are healthier and fitter than at any other time in history. Nevertheless, it's also true that people over the age of 70 spend an average of 17 hours a day alone -- longer than any other demographic group.
According to the German Center of Gerontology (DZA), over 20 percent of Germans over the age of 70 are in regular contact with only one person -- or nobody. One in four receives a visit less than once a month from friends and acquaintances, and nearly one in 10 is not visited by anyone anymore. Many old people have no one who still addresses them by their first name or asks them how they are doing. For many of them, soap opera actors have become a kind of substitute family.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-faces-epidemic-of-lonely-and-isolated-seniors-a-876635.html Alone by the Millions: Isolation Crisis Threatens German Seniors] By Guido Kleinhubbert and Antje Windmann</ref>}}