Macao, China (SAR)

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
632,418 1
Urban
100.00% 1
Rural
0.00% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
58.3% 2
Homicides
0.17 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
43 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4

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
32,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
4.66
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
195
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
114
First Communions per Year
123
Confirmations per Year
125
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
13,409
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
10,017
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
1,408
Church Marriages per Year
48
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
7
Priests
79
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
154
Catholics per Priest
401
Parishes
9
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
10
  • 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.