New Caledonia

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
279,821 1
Urban
70.70% 1
Rural
29.30% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
24.4% 2

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
143,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
50.71
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
1,454
First Communions per Year
1,085
Confirmations per Year
820
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
6,075
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
7,228
Church Marriages per Year
202
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
182
Priests
25
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
57
Catholics per Priest
5,720
Parishes
32
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
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.