National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
2,085,051 1
Urban
58.00% 1
Rural
42.00% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
6.3% 2
Level of Public Corruption
90 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
73 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.54 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.60% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
76 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
97.63% 6
Internet Users
68% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$5,150 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
1.3% 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
15,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
0.72
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
59
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
5
First Communions per Year
29
Confirmations per Year
40
Church Marriages per Year
27
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
15
Priests
24
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
26
Catholics per Priest
626
Parishes
11
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
1
In the Journal of Global Catholicism