National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
3,659,007 1
Urban
93.60% 1
Rural
6.40% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
7.5% 2
Homicides
15.86 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 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 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
2,706,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
84.69
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
7,677
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
1,111
First Communions per Year
9,106
Confirmations per Year
7,841
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
10,356
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
8,121
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
28,463
Church Marriages per Year
2,597
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
2,339
Priests
533
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
857
Catholics per Priest
5,077
Parishes
331
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
228
Catholic Hospitals
12
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
23