Puerto Rico

Demographics

National Demographics

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

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:

Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids:

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.

Search form

You are here

Puerto Rico

Demographics

Footnotes

Search form