Vanuatu

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
282,117 1
Urban
25.30% 1
Rural
74.70% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
1.2% 2
Homicides
2.13 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
109 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
3.31 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
2.80% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
72 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
84.01% 6
Internet Users
19% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$3,160 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
15.4% 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
47,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
15.00
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
874
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
177
First Communions per Year
880
Confirmations per Year
1,158
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
10,200
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
8,831
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
51
Church Marriages per Year
161
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
160
Priests
31
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
50
Catholics per Priest
1,522
Parishes
28
Catholic Hospitals
1
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
2