United Kingdom

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010

Note: The Catholic Church's UK data includes statistics only for Great Britain, not Northern Ireland, though it is part of the United Kingdom.

Total Population
66,573,504 1
Urban
83.40% 1
Rural
16.60% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
13.2% 2
Level of Public Corruption
10 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
20 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.92 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
81 years 6
Internet Users
92% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$43,430 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
5,665,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
8.76
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
47,553
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
4,275
First Communions per Year
58,376
Confirmations per Year
38,560
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
432,426
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
364,704
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
203,517
Church Marriages per Year
5,319
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
3,124
Priests
4,604
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
4,043
Catholics per Priest
1,230
Parishes
2,651
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
21
Catholic Hospitals
12
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
134