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% 6
    Internet Users
    17% 6
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$4,390 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
    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