National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
1,372,598 1
Urban
53.20% 1
Rural
46.80% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
3.7% 2
Homicides
30.88 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
101 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
44 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.77 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
2.00% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
71 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
98.86% 6
Internet Users
65% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$20,070 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.
Catholic Demographics
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
289,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
21.17
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
2,142
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
2,569
First Communions per Year
2,050
Confirmations per Year
1,208
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
31,535
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
12,156
Church Marriages per Year
510
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
415
Priests
90
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
106
Catholics per Priest
3,214
Parishes
61
Catholic Hospitals
2
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
6