Belize

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
382,444 1
Urban
45.70% 1
Rural
54.30% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
15.0% 2
Level of Public Corruption
109 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
98 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
2.55 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
1.70% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
70 years 6
Internet Users
39% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$4,350 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.

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
162,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
38.65
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
1,264
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
384
First Communions per Year
1,048
Confirmations per Year
1,568
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
29,422
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
2,385
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
1,917
Church Marriages per Year
213
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
22
Priests
38
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
59
Catholics per Priest
4,262
Parishes
13
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
135
Catholic Hospitals
1
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
1