Switzerland

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    8,544,034 1
    Urban
    73.80% 1
    Rural
    26.20% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    29.4% 2
    Homicides
    0.69 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    5 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    11 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    1.55 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    0.40% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    83 years 5
    Internet Users
    87% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$88,120 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
    3,516,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    40.81
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    14,020
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    950
    First Communions per Year
    20,706
    Confirmations per Year
    14,951
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    1,485
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    5,590
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    665
    Church Marriages per Year
    2,116
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    1,560
    Priests
    2,040
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    4,150
    Catholics per Priest
    1,724
    Parishes
    1,619
    Catholic Hospitals
    2
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    21
    • 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.