Japan

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
127,185,332 1
Urban
91.60% 1
Rural
8.40% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
1.6% 2
Level of Public Corruption
20 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
111 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.43 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.30% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
84 years 6
Internet Users
91% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$42,000 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
535,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
0.43
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
1,594
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
2,092
First Communions per Year
2,108
Confirmations per Year
1,878
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
20,290
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
64,750
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
53,794
Church Marriages per Year
570
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
174
Priests
1,294
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
4,589
Catholics per Priest
413
Parishes
854
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
14
Catholic Hospitals
27
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
303