Sri Lanka

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    20,950,041 1
    Urban
    18.50% 1
    Rural
    81.50% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    0.2% 2
    Level of Public Corruption
    95 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    100 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    2.06 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    1.00% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    75 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    91.18% 5
    Internet Users
    26% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$3,460 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    1.7% 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
    1,630,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    7.43
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    22,483
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    2,858
    First Communions per Year
    21,040
    Confirmations per Year
    19,149
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    44,801
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    64,589
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    8,168
    Church Marriages per Year
    10,012
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    7,409
    Priests
    1,551
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    2,604
    Catholics per Priest
    1,051
    Parishes
    493
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    696
    Catholic Hospitals
    9
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    49
    • 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.