Northern Mariana Islands

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
55,194 1
Urban
91.60% 1
Rural
8.40% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
39.3% 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
46,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
56.75
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
431
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
1
First Communions per Year
206
Confirmations per Year
206
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
236
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
319
Church Marriages per Year
98
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
97
Priests
15
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
13
Catholics per Priest
3,073
Parishes
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.