Moldova

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
4,041,065 1
Urban
42.60% 1
Rural
57.40% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
3.5% 2
Level of Public Corruption
123 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
26 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.25 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
1.60% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
72 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
99.17% 6
Internet Users
47% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$2,560 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
0.1% 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
20,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
0.56
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
24
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
4
First Communions per Year
46
Confirmations per Year
27
Church Marriages per Year
8
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
2
Priests
27
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
24
Catholics per Priest
740
Parishes
20