National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
4,737,423 1
Urban
41.40% 1
Rural
58.60% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
1.7% 2
Homicides
13.09 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
159 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
4.21 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
13.00% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
51 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
36.75% 6
Internet Users
4% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$320 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
66.3% 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
2,027,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
37.98
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
15,857
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
9,384
First Communions per Year
9,084
Confirmations per Year
7,421
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
52,356
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
7,909
Church Marriages per Year
486
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
437
Priests
374
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
300
Catholics per Priest
5,420
Parishes
131
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
1,759
Catholic Hospitals
13
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
13