Zimbabwe

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    16,913,261 1
    Urban
    32.20% 1
    Rural
    67.80% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    2.6% 2
    Level of Public Corruption
    154 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    56 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    3.86 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    7.10% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    59 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    83.58% 5
    Internet Users
    20% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$840 5

    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
    2,069,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    13.37
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    8,554
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    10,303
    First Communions per Year
    6,109
    Confirmations per Year
    8,316
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    89,497
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    51,982
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    4,442
    Church Marriages per Year
    1,155
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    966
    Priests
    597
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    1,067
    Catholics per Priest
    3,465
    Parishes
    267
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    2,230
    Catholic Hospitals
    38
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    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 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.