Togo

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    7,990,926 1
    Urban
    41.70% 1
    Rural
    58.30% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    3.8% 2
    Homicides
    9.14 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    116 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Fertility Rate
    4.51 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    7.80% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    60 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    60.41% 5
    Internet Users
    6% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$570 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    54.2% 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
    2,126,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    27.27
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    15,243
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    15,557
    First Communions per Year
    24,978
    Confirmations per Year
    16,353
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    113,034
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    39,400
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    1,689
    Church Marriages per Year
    1,355
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    1,221
    Priests
    1,058
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    1,149
    Catholics per Priest
    2,009
    Parishes
    295
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    1,566
    Catholic Hospitals
    12
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    4
    • 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.