Djibouti

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
971,408 1
Urban
77.80% 1
Rural
22.20% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
12.7% 2
Homicides
6.77 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
123 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
3.13 births per adult woman 5
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
6.50% 5
Life Expectancy at Birth
62 years 5
Internet Users
11% 5
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
18.3% 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
5,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
0.57
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
1
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
2
First Communions per Year
6
Confirmations per Year
6
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
1,445
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
378
Church Marriages per Year
1
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
1
Priests
5
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
24
Catholics per Priest
1,054
Parishes
5
  • 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.