Eswatini

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
1,391,385 1
Urban
23.80% 1
Rural
76.20% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
2.5% 2
Level of Public Corruption
72 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
107 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
3.20 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
6.10% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
49 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
83.10% 6
Internet Users
27% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$3,550 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
42.0% 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
57,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
5.35
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
85
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
34
First Communions per Year
69
Confirmations per Year
69
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
28,070
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
9,400
Church Marriages per Year
30
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
11
Priests
33
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
54
Catholics per Priest
1,721
Parishes
17
Catholic Hospitals
1
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
1