Turkey

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
81,916,871 1
Urban
75.10% 1
Rural
24.90% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
3.8% 2
Level of Public Corruption
75 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
130 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
2.05 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
1.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
76 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
92.66% 6
Internet Users
51% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$10,830 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
0.3% 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
37,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
0.04
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
87
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
36
First Communions per Year
97
Confirmations per Year
108
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
690
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
4,553
Church Marriages per Year
32
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
22
Priests
73
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
51
Catholics per Priest
502
Parishes
52
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
1
Catholic Hospitals
3
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
3