National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
8,418,346 1
Urban
13.20% 1
Rural
86.80% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
0.3% 2
Level of Public Corruption
136 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
3.71 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
5.70% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
63 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
63.34% 6
Internet Users
9% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$2,240 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
39.3% 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
2,434,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
30.43
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
26,227
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
7,355
First Communions per Year
20,073
Confirmations per Year
17,532
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
351,863
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
77,110
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
10,797
Church Marriages per Year
4,105
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
3,321
Priests
583
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
827
Catholics per Priest
4,176
Parishes
443
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
750
Catholic Hospitals
177
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
3