Canada

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    36,953,765 1
    Urban
    81.40% 1
    Rural
    18.60% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    21.8% 2
    Homicides
    1.68 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    9 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    35 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    1.59 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    0.50% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    82 years 5
    Internet Users
    87% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$51,630 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
    16,858,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    44.36
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    72,626
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    5,346
    First Communions per Year
    61,060
    Confirmations per Year
    57,507
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    486,026
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    276,218
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    28,074
    Church Marriages per Year
    9,712
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    7,964
    Priests
    6,222
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    9,620
    Catholics per Priest
    2,709
    Parishes
    3,881
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    239
    Catholic Hospitals
    64
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    140
    • 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.