National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
17,084,459 1
Urban
91.50% 1
Rural
8.50% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
11.7% 2
Homicides
0.61 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
8 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
16 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.76 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
82 years 6
Internet Users
93% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$51,890 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.
Catholic Demographics
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
4,835,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
27.77
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
8,883
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
502
First Communions per Year
13,515
Confirmations per Year
7,772
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
19
Church Marriages per Year
1,079
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
915
Priests
1,698
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
3,225
Catholics per Priest
2,847
Parishes
621