Taiwan, Republic of China

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
23,694,089 1
Urban
78.20% 1
Rural
21.80% 1
Homicides
0.82 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
31 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4

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
219,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
0.93
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
845
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
1,223
First Communions per Year
1,101
Confirmations per Year
1,929
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
7,149
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
48,138
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
52,773
Church Marriages per Year
514
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
186
Priests
654
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
1,075
Catholics per Priest
335
Parishes
424
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
37
Catholic Hospitals
11
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
102
  • 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.