New Zealand

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    4,749,598 1
    Urban
    86.50% 1
    Rural
    13.50% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    23.0% 2
    Level of Public Corruption
    1 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    9 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    2.02 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    0.60% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    82 years 5
    Internet Users
    86% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$41,070 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
    547,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    10.76
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    3,349
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    1,053
    First Communions per Year
    3,516
    Confirmations per Year
    3,615
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    35,839
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    30,439
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    294
    Church Marriages per Year
    464
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    263
    Priests
    434
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    601
    Catholics per Priest
    1,260
    Parishes
    199
    Catholic Hospitals
    7
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    16
    • 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.