National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
2,067,561 1
Urban
89.40% 1
Rural
10.60% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
15.6% 2
Homicides
9.00 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
101 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Fertility Rate
3.85 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
5.10% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
65 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
82.28% 6
Internet Users
10% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$9,720 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
8.0% 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.
Catholic Demographics
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
1,013,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
54.69
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
3,323
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
1,994
First Communions per Year
2,261
Confirmations per Year
2,323
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
29,154
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
15,210
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
1,987
Church Marriages per Year
244
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
208
Priests
229
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
198
Catholics per Priest
4,422
Parishes
98
Mission Stations (no resident priests)
374
Catholic Hospitals
3
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
3