Netherlands Antilles

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
227,831 1
Urban
88.00% 1
Rural
12.00% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
48.8% 2
Fertility Rate
2.00 births per adult woman 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
160,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
71.92
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
1,229
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
188
First Communions per Year
731
Confirmations per Year
726
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
11,083
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
7,085
Church Marriages per Year
112
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
101
Priests
51
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
31
Catholics per Priest
3,129
Parishes
32
Catholic Hospitals
6
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
13
  • 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.