Singapore

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    5,791,901 1
    Urban
    100.00% 1
    Rural
    0.00% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    45.4% 2
    Homicides
    0.25 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    7 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    55 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    1.24 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    0.30% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    83 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    95.86% 5
    Internet Users
    82% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$55,150 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
    156,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    2.74
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    1,123
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    1,265
    First Communions per Year
    1,612
    Confirmations per Year
    1,875
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    23,756
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    19,717
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    1,722
    Church Marriages per Year
    599
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    272
    Priests
    161
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    166
    Catholics per Priest
    966
    Parishes
    29
    Catholic Hospitals
    1
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    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.