Palau

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    21,964 1
    Urban
    79.90% 1
    Rural
    20.10% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    26.6% 2
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    1.60% 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    99.52% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$11,110 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
    12,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    60.00
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    117
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    121
    First Communions per Year
    10
    Confirmations per Year
    49
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    214
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    121
    Church Marriages per Year
    18
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    15
    Priests
    5
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    4
    Catholics per Priest
    2,400
    Parishes
    3
    • 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.