Gambia

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
2,163,765 1
Urban
61.30% 1
Rural
38.70% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
9.7% 2
Homicides
9.07 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
145 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
104 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
5.67 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
6.90% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
60 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
53.19% 6
Internet Users
16% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$500 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
45.3% 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
60,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
2.68
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
678
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
200
First Communions per Year
910
Confirmations per Year
695
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
25,051
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
17,273
Church Marriages per Year
106
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
105
Priests
44
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
55
Catholics per Priest
1,357
Parishes
20