Belarus

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    9,452,113 1
    Urban
    78.60% 1
    Rural
    21.40% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    11.4% 2
    Level of Public Corruption
    79 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    30 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    1.62 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    0.50% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    71 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    99.62% 5
    Internet Users
    59% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$7,340 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    0.0% 5

    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
    1,446,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    14.93
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    5,454
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    130
    First Communions per Year
    4,897
    Confirmations per Year
    1,409
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    61
    Church Marriages per Year
    1,583
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    990
    Priests
    479
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    257
    Catholics per Priest
    3,019
    Parishes
    504
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    1
    • 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 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.