Niger

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    22,311,375 1
    Urban
    16.40% 1
    Rural
    83.60% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    1.0% 2
    Level of Public Corruption
    101 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Fertility Rate
    7.57 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    9.60% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    62 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    15.46% 5
    Internet Users
    2% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$410 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    50.3% 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
    24,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    0.11
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    209
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    323
    First Communions per Year
    285
    Confirmations per Year
    382
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    7,402
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    3,940
    Church Marriages per Year
    96
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    75
    Priests
    61
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    88
    Catholics per Priest
    399
    Parishes
    25
    • 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.