Réunion

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
883,247 1
Urban
99.60% 1
Rural
0.40% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
14.8% 2

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
678,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
79.20
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
7,198
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
305
First Communions per Year
7,349
Confirmations per Year
6,458
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
9,670
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
8,422
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
400
Church Marriages per Year
669
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
635
Priests
127
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
238
Catholics per Priest
5,338
Parishes
73
  • 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.