National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
2,934,152 1
Urban
63.10% 1
Rural
36.90% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
6.3% 2
Homicides
2.45 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
113 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
102 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.52 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
1.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
75 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
99.74% 6
Internet Users
46% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$4,020 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
2.4% 6
- 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
- 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
- 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
- 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
- 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
- 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
Catholic Demographics
These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.
Baptized Catholics
288,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
9.73
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
62
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
82
First Communions per Year
58
Confirmations per Year
144
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
35
Church Marriages per Year
57
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
57
Priests
22
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
25
Catholics per Priest
13,073
Parishes
20
Catholic Hospitals
1
