Nauru

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
11,312 1
Urban
100.00% 1
Rural
0.00% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
31.1% 2
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
3.50% 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
3,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
28.62
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
122
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
18
First Communions per Year
85
Confirmations per Year
39
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
500
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
114
Church Marriages per Year
19
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
15
Priests
4
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
3
Catholics per Priest
810
Parishes
1
  • 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.