You can infer the same from the map provided by the link, right?

The map clearly shows that the most religious regions are precisely the most dysfunctional: Africa, Latin America and Southern Asia.

> doesn’t prove that faith causes such things as teenage pregnancy, crime, and drug abuse, but it’s provocative.

As a Latin American I suspect it is the other way around: a society that doesn't solve problems makes people despaired for any solution, even the ones that don't solve anything, like religion. Whe you can't get a remedy then at least you want a placebo.