Western Sahara

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    567,421 1
    Urban
    86.70% 1
    Rural
    13.30% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    0.9% 2
    Level of Public Corruption
    0 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 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 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
    300
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    0.03
    First Communions per Year
    1
    Confirmations per Year
    2
    Priests
    3
    Catholics per Priest
    110
    Parishes
    2