Chad

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    15,353,184 1
    Urban
    23.10% 1
    Rural
    76.90% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    3.7% 2
    Homicides
    9.02 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    159 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    140 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    6.05 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    13.90% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    52 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    38.23% 5
    Internet Users
    3% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$980 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    38.4% 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
    1,624,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    10.00
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    2,963
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    27,488
    First Communions per Year
    8,539
    Confirmations per Year
    8,754
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    51,863
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    17,487
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    8,381
    Church Marriages per Year
    2,024
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    1,239
    Priests
    320
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    339
    Catholics per Priest
    5,075
    Parishes
    138
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    342
    Catholic Hospitals
    6
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    3
    • 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.