A new poll has found that the number of young men saying religion is very important to them has sharply risen over the last few years, reaching a 25-year high.

The Gallup poll found that 42 percent of men between the ages of 18 and 29 said that religion is very important to them. That latest data, from 2024-2025 is up sharply from 2022-2023, when just 28 percent said it was very important. In 2000-2001, that number was 43 percent. The latest data revealed that their female counterparts held relatively steady at 39 percent.

While men held relatively steady on their views of how important religion is throughout age groups, with 50 percent of men ages 65 and older saying it’s very important, that number more than doubled for women. For women ages 65 and older, 64 percent said that religion was important to them. The findings are based on biennial aggregates of Gallup’s religion data from 2000-2001 to 2024-2025.

The poll also found that religious attendance has ticked up in recent years among both young adult groups. For young men, religious attendance, meaning monthly or more frequent attendance at religious services, rose from around 33 percent in 2022-2023 to 40 percent in 2024-2025, the highest level since 2012-2013. For women, it has risen from 36 percent in 2022-2023 to 39 percent in 2024-2025.

A split in the rise in attendance among young adults was seen among political affiliation. While attendance has sharply risen in the last decade for Republican young men and women, attendance among young Democrats has remained largely unchanged.