National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
623,281 1
Urban
23.70% 1
Rural
76.30% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
0.4% 2
Level of Public Corruption
72 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
3.90 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
2.80% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
68 years 6
Internet Users
9% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$1,830 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
45.6% 6
- 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
134,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
22.29
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
4,154
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
214
First Communions per Year
4,510
Confirmations per Year
3,886
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
5,156
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
7,802
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
3,079
Church Marriages per Year
596
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
483
Priests
89
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
120
Catholics per Priest
1,506
Parishes
34
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
59
Catholic Hospitals
4