National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
118,414 1
Urban
54.10% 1
Rural
45.90% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
2.8% 2
Level of Public Corruption
96 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
3.69 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
5.60% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
66 years 6
Internet Users
12% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$2,950 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
14.1% 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.
Catholic Demographics
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
63,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
53.86
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
1,833
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
272
First Communions per Year
977
Confirmations per Year
391
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
3,519
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
109
Church Marriages per Year
343
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
264
Priests
28
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
70
Catholics per Priest
2,239
Parishes
23
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
8