French Guiana

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    289,763 1
    Urban
    85.30% 1
    Rural
    14.70% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    39.5% 2
    • 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
    213,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    70.30
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    868
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    285
    First Communions per Year
    757
    Confirmations per Year
    681
    Church Marriages per Year
    72
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    70
    Priests
    46
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    24
    Catholics per Priest
    4,640
    Parishes
    27
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    6
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    1