Mexico

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    130,759,074 1
    Urban
    80.20% 1
    Rural
    19.80% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    0.9% 2
    Homicides
    16.35 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    123 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    66 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    2.21 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    1.30% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    77 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    93.07% 5
    Internet Users
    44% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$9,870 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    2.7% 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
    116,641,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    91.27
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    1,400,316
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    137,394
    First Communions per Year
    1,111,562
    Confirmations per Year
    1,023,547
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    498,375
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    393,230
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    243,729
    Church Marriages per Year
    182,117
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    178,200
    Priests
    17,311
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    25,109
    Catholics per Priest
    6,738
    Parishes
    7,648
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    2,735
    Catholic Hospitals
    135
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    361
    • 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.