Saudi Arabia

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    33,554,343 1
    Urban
    83.80% 1
    Rural
    16.20% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    32.3% 2
    Homicides
    1.50 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    62 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    141 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    2.71 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    1.50% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    74 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    94.43% 5
    Internet Users
    64% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$25,140 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
    1,834,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    5.30
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    85
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    3
    First Communions per Year
    104
    Confirmations per Year
    83
    Church Marriages per Year
    21
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    18
    Priests
    16
    Catholics per Priest
    114,625
    Parishes
    4
    • 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.