Sudan

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
41,511,526 1
Urban
34.60% 1
Rural
65.40% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
1.3% 2
Homicides
6.45 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
170 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
4.29 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
7.00% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
64 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
74.27% 6
Internet Users
25% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$1,710 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
14.9% 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.

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
1,300,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
3.16
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
7,391
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
1,357
First Communions per Year
1,801
Confirmations per Year
1,547
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
35,837
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
6,089
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
2,370
Church Marriages per Year
184
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
171
Priests
117
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
109
Catholics per Priest
11,107
Parishes
47
Catholic Hospitals
3
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
2