Dominica

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
74,308 1
Urban
70.50% 1
Rural
29.50% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
9.2% 2
Level of Public Corruption
38 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
2.10% 6
Internet Users
63% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$6,930 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.

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
42,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
60.23
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
238
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
54
First Communions per Year
307
Confirmations per Year
147
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
1,716
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
1,172
Church Marriages per Year
24
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
22
Priests
27
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
9
Catholics per Priest
1,548
Parishes
15