National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
590,321 1
Urban
91.00% 1
Rural
9.00% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
44.0% 2
Level of Public Corruption
10 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
34 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.58 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.20% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
82 years 6
Internet Users
95% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$75,990 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
457,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
72.97
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
1,858
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
145
First Communions per Year
2,239
Confirmations per Year
915
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
1,900
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
2,500
Church Marriages per Year
237
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
200
Priests
168
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
260
Catholics per Priest
2,719
Parishes
275
Catholic Hospitals
2
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
25