National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
4,164,783 1
Urban
56.90% 1
Rural
43.10% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
13.6% 2
Homicides
0.87 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
55 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
68 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.50 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
77 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
99.13% 6
Internet Users
69% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$12,980 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
0.9% 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
3,593
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
88.04
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
27,740
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
985
First Communions per Year
32,307
Confirmations per Year
31,419
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
1,833
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
2,369
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
8,237
Church Marriages per Year
8,458
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
8,175
Priests
2,348
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
3,028
Catholics per Priest
1,530
Parishes
1,605
Catholic Hospitals
4
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
27