Marshall Islands

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
53,167 1
Urban
77.00% 1
Rural
23.00% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
6.2% 2
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
3.60% 5
Internet Users
17% 5
Gross National Income per Capita
US$4,390 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
5,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
8.85
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
67
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
23
First Communions per Year
78
Confirmations per Year
16
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
356
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
120
Church Marriages per Year
21
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
15
Priests
6
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
6
Catholics per Priest
873
Parishes
5
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
5
  • 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.