National Demographics
Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
4,197,128 1
Urban
100.00% 1
Rural
0.00% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
73.6% 2
Level of Public Corruption
75 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
128 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
2.07 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.90% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
75 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
95.51% 6
Internet Users
79% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$49,300 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
402,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
9.00
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
324
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
2
First Communions per Year
701
Confirmations per Year
701
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
4,593
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
3,190
Church Marriages per Year
16
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
14
Priests
21
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
11
Catholics per Priest
19,143
Parishes
4