Guadeloupe

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
449,173 1
Urban
98.50% 1
Rural
1.50% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
21.0% 2

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
334,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
77.94
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
2,253
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
301
First Communions per Year
2,076
Confirmations per Year
2,359
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
3,146
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
3,449
Church Marriages per Year
2,834
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
2,823
Priests
61
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
165
Catholics per Priest
5,475
Parishes
43
  • 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.