Liberia

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
4,853,516 1
Urban
51.20% 1
Rural
48.80% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
2.5% 2
Level of Public Corruption
90 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
114 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
4.65 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
7.00% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
61 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
42.94% 6
Internet Users
5% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$370 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
68.6% 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
348,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
7.52
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
963
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
1,097
First Communions per Year
783
Confirmations per Year
492
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
8,903
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
9,547
Church Marriages per Year
100
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
71
Priests
96
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
63
Catholics per Priest
3,627
Parishes
58
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
348
Catholic Hospitals
8
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
2