Libya

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    6,470,956 1
    Urban
    80.10% 1
    Rural
    19.90% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    12.3% 2
    Homicides
    2.49 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    170 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Fertility Rate
    2.43 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    1.30% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    72 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    90.26% 5
    Internet Users
    18% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$7,820 5

    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
    16,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    0.23
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    50
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    15
    First Communions per Year
    15
    Confirmations per Year
    26
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    76
    Church Marriages per Year
    4
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    4
    Priests
    4
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    8
    Catholics per Priest
    4,058
    Parishes
    6
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    4
    • 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.