Zambia

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
17,609,178 1
Urban
43.50% 1
Rural
56.50% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
0.8% 2
Level of Public Corruption
87 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
5.28 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
6.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
64 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
61.43% 6
Internet Users
17% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$1,680 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
64.6% 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
6,108,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
34.15
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
41,112
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
37,908
First Communions per Year
26,000
Confirmations per Year
17,763
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
59,974
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
40,251
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
7,945
Church Marriages per Year
6,466
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
4,365
Priests
998
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
2,016
Catholics per Priest
6,120
Parishes
389
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
2,068
Catholic Hospitals
34
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
9
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