Pakistan

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    200,813,818 1
    Urban
    36.70% 1
    Rural
    63.30% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    1.9% 2
    Level of Public Corruption
    116 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    143 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    3.55 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    8.10% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    66 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    55.38% 5
    Internet Users
    14% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$1,400 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    8.3% 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
    1,594,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    0.73
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    15,281
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    3,652
    First Communions per Year
    13,256
    Confirmations per Year
    10,392
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    24,290
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    104,107
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    5,762
    Church Marriages per Year
    7,695
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    4,087
    Priests
    326
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    1,067
    Catholics per Priest
    4,890
    Parishes
    138
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    85
    Catholic Hospitals
    10
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    10
    • 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.