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Catholic Church by country

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Catholic Church by country
Catholic Church by country
Catholic Church by country

The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the pope)." The church is also known by members as the People of God, the Body of Christ, the "Temple of the Holy Spirit", among other names. According to Vatican II's Gaudium et spes, the "church has but one sole purpose–that the kingdom of God may come and the salvation of the human race may be accomplished."

Distribution of Catholics
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Percentage of Catholics by country (2010)
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Number of Catholics by country (2010)
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This communion of churches comprises the Latin Church (or the Roman or Western Church) as well as 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, canonically called sui juris churches, each led by either a patriarch or a major archbishop in full communion with the Bishop of Rome. Historically, these bodies separated from Eastern Christian communions, either to remain in or to return to full communion with the Catholic Church. Vatican II decree on Eastern Catholic Churches, however, explicitly recognizes Eastern Catholic communities as "true Churches" and not just rites within the Catholic Church. This Communion of Churches "exists among and between the individual Churches and dioceses of the universal Catholic Church. Its structural expression is the College of Bishops, each of whom represents and embodies his own local church." In addition to Eastern Catholic Churches, the Catholic Church oversees the Catholic Charismatic renewal, the largest Charismatic movement of a single institution in 2020, with over 100 million members, primarily in the Global South. The Catholic Church is also described as an "amalgam of parts" (i.e., thousands of individual dioceses, religious orders, etc.) globally dispersed, but in communion with Rome.

The Catholic Church is the "world's oldest continuously functioning international institution." It is also the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world, while the diplomatic status of the Holy See facilitates the access of its vast international network of charities. Some of these entities include 5,000 hospitals, 10,000 orphanages, 95,000 elementary schools and 47,000 secondary schools.

Methodology

Most of the figures are taken from the CIA Factbook or PEW Research Center Surveys. In Latin American countries, Latinobarometro is often cited. In Germany and other German speaking regions of Europe, there are official membership statistics due to the fact that the government collects a church tax based on these membership lists. For this reason, statistics are not grounded on surveys based solely on self-identification. One's baptismal certificate or any other religious document is likewise secondary to church statistics. This method might explain the discrepancy between Pew's figures on Germany and the church figures.

According to the CIA Factbook and the Pew Research Center, the five countries with the largest number of Catholics are, in decreasing order of Catholic population:

  • image Brazil
  • image Mexico
  • image Philippines
  • image United States
  • image Democratic Republic of the Congo

The country where the membership of the church is the largest percentage of the population is Vatican City at 100%, followed by East Timor at 97%.

According to the Census of the 2023 Annuario Pontificio (Pontifical Yearbook), the number of baptized Catholics in the world was about 1.376 billion at the end of 2021. The research initiative Catholics & Cultures compiles data on Catholic demographics, including from the Annuario Pontificio, by country.

Conflicting numbers can be found in 2013 research conducted by the Brazilian polling institute Datafolha. This report states that the percentage of the population in Brazil of Catholic religion, over the age of 16 years, is just 57%, in contrast to the 64.63% published by CIA and to the 68.6% of Pew Research Center. Also, the 2010 Mexican Census showed this percentage to be 83.9% – against a 91.89% number in the CIA World Factbook.

By country

By clicking on the icons in the column titles, the table can be re-ordered by column.

Catholic Church by country
Country Total population % Catholic Catholic total
image Afghanistan (details) 29,928,987 0% 0
image Albania (details) 3,020,000 10% 302,000
image Algeria (details) 32,531,853 0.14% 45,000
image Andorra (details) 70,000 88.2% 61,740
image Angola (details) 35,121,734 41.1%–50%–55%–56.4%–60% 12,500,000–20,000,000
image Antigua and Barbuda (details) 84,816 5.5% 4,752
image Argentina (details) 47,300,000 48.9%–62.9%–63%–63.3%–66% 23,100,000–31,200,000
image Armenia (details) 3,018,854 0.3% 8,695
image Australia (details) 25,380,000 20.0% 5,076,000
image Austria (details) 9,185,000 50.6% 4,640,000
image Azerbaijan (details) 8,581,400 0.03% 2,574
image Bahamas (details) 330,000 12% 39,600
image Bahrain (details) 800,000 8.9% 71,200
image Bangladesh (details) 158,000,000 0.07% 110,000
image Barbados (details) 250,012 4.2% 10,000
image Belarus (details) 9,500,000 7.1% 674,500
image Belgium (details) 11,200,000 44%–57.1% 5,000,000–6,500,000
image Belize (details) 334,000 40% 133,600
image Benin (details) 7,460,025 26.6% 1,984,366
image Bhutan (details) 2,232,291 0.06% 1,339
image Bolivia (details) 10,500,000 70%–73%–77% 7,980,000
image Bosnia and Herzegovina (details) 3,531,159 15.19% 536,333
image Botswana (details) 1,640,115 4.9% 80,365
image Brazil (details) 210,600,000 50%–54%–54.7%–58.1%–61%–64.6%–65.0%-70.57% 105,300,000–134,000,000–140,000,000
image Brunei (details) 372,361 5% 38,709
image Bulgaria (details) 6,519,789 0.6% 37,251
image Burkina Faso (details) 13,925,313 20.1% 4,121,536
image Burundi (details) 12,000,000 62.1% 7,440,000
image Cabo Verde (details) 512,096 77.3% 395,850
image Cambodia (details) 13,607,069 <0.1% <10,000
image Cameroon (details) 31,000,000 33.1%–38.4% 10,300,000
image Canada (details) 40,769,890 29.9 12,189,931
image Central African Republic (details) 3,799,897 29% 949,974
image Chad (details) 12,000,000 20%–22.8% 2,520,000
image Chile (details) 18,000,000 42%–45%–52.6%–55%–64%–66.6% 8,100,000–9,468,000–12,000,000
image China (details) 1,400,000,000 0.43%–0.7% 6,000,000–12,000,000
image Colombia (details) 48,000,000 70.9%–73%–75%–79% 34,000,000–37,900,000
image Comoros (details) 800,000 0.2% 1,600
image Congo, Republic of (details) 5,062,021 33.1%–52.9% 1,675,529–2,409,661
image Congo, Democratic Republic of (details) 109,000,000 45%–47.3%–55% 49,000,000–60,000,000
image Costa Rica (details) 5,100,000 47%–57%–62%–71.8% 2,350,000–3,500,000
image Croatia (details) 3,872,000 83.2% 3,240,000
image Cuba (details) 11,163,934 51%–60% 6,000,000
image Cyprus (details) 1,100,000 2.9% 11,000
image Czech Republic (details) 10,524,167 9.3% 985,318
image Côte d'Ivoire (details) 23,800,000 21.4% 5,093,000
image Denmark (details) 5,630,000 0.7% 46,000
image Djibouti (details) 476,703 0.2% 953
image Dominica (details) 71,540 58.1% 41,564
image Dominican Republic (details) 10,400,000 48%–57% 4,992,000–5,928,000
image East Timor (details) 1,054,000 97.57% 1,021,000
image Ecuador (details) 15,223,680 69.5%–77.0%–79%–80.4% 11,265,523
image Equatorial Guinea (details) 1,620,000 80.7% 1,410,000
image Egypt (details) 77,505,756 0.1% 187,320
image El Salvador (details) 7,000,000 39%–47%–50% 2,730,000–3,500,000
image Eritrea (details) 4,561,599 3.3% 150,532
image Estonia (details) 1,332,893 0.8% 8,690
image Ethiopia (details) 73,053,286 0.7% 584,426
image Federated States of Micronesia (details) 104,468 52.6%–55% 60,000
image Fiji (details) 893,354 9.1% 80,401
image Finland (details) 5,451,270 0.2% 12,434
image France (details) 66,600,000 47%–48%–51%–57%–60% 31,300,000–44,000,000
image Gabon (details) 1,389,201 50% 694,600
image Gambia (details) 1,593,256 2.1% 33,458
image Georgia (details) 3,713,804 0.5% 18,569
image Germany (details) 84,400,000 24.0% 20,346,000
image Ghana (details) 30,792,608 10.0% 3,079,261
image Greece (details) 10,413,982 2.4% 250,000
image Grenada (details) 89,502 44.6% 39,917
image Guatemala (details) 15,773,000 43%–45%–50% 7,000,000
image Guinea (details) 9,467,866 2.6% 246,164
image Guinea-Bissau (details) 1,416,027 8.9% 126,026
image Guyana (details) 746,955 7.1% 53,034
image Haiti (details) 10,000,000 54.7%–56.7%–56.8% 5,470,000
image Honduras (details) 8,800,000 37%–46% 3,256,000–4,048,000
image Hungary (details) 9,877,000 29.2%–38.1%–53.0%–56%–62%. 2,808,000–6,123,740
image Iceland (details) 355,277 3.9% 13,799
image India (details) 1,400,000,000 0.9%–1.5% 13,000,000–21,000,000
image Indonesia (details) 270,000,000 3.12% 8,424,000
image Iran (details) 85,202,000 0.02% 13,603
image Iraq (details) 38,000,000 0.35% 133,000
image Ireland (details) 5,100,000 69% 3,500,000
image Israel (details) 7,746,000 1.2% 92,952
image Italy (details) 60,800,000 66.7%-74%–75%–76.5%–78.9%–81.7% 44,400,000–50,000,000
image Jamaica (details) 2,697,983 2.2% 59,356
image Japan (details) 124,000,000 0.3%–0.5% 372,000–620,000
image Jordan (details) 5,759,732 0.4% 23,038
image Kazakhstan (details) 15,185,844 0.6% 91,115
image Kenya (details) 47,560,000 20.6% 9,816,000
image Kiribati (details) 98,000 55.8%–57.3% 54,684
image Korea, North (details) 22,912,177 0.01% 2,291
image Korea, South (details) 53,121,668 11.1% 5,914,669
image Kosovo (details) 1,739,825 1.4% 25,837
image Kuwait (details) 2,335,648 8.5% 402,000
image Kyrgyzstan (details) 5,146,281 0.1% 5,146
image Laos (details) 6,217,141 0.6% 37,302
image Latvia (details) 2,290,237 19.1% 437,435
image Lebanon (details) 4,800,000 28.8% 1,382,400
image Lesotho (details) 2,067,000 45.7%–49.4% 946,000–1,052,237
image Liberia (details) 3,482,211 5.4% 188,039
image Libya (details) 5,765,563 0.7% 40,358
image Liechtenstein (details) 33,863 75.9%–81.7% 25,803
image Lithuania (details) 2,810,761 77.2% 2,085,340
image Luxembourg (details) 538,000 63.8%–65.9% 369,600
image Madagascar (details) 18,040,341 29.5%–38.1% 5,318,293–7,890,000
image Malawi (details) 17,563,749 17.2% 3,028,435
image Malaysia (details) 34,671,895 4.63% 1,570,000
image Maldives (details) 349,106 0.02% 80
image Mali (details) 12,291,529 1.5% 189,289
image Malta (details) 428,000 82.6% 361,372
image Marshall Islands (details) 62,000 8.4% 5,208
image Mauritania (details) 3,086,859 0.1% 3,086
image Mauritius (details) 1,237,091 26.0% 324,811
image Mexico (details) 129,875,000 74%–77.7%78% 96,101,000–100,912,000–101,302,000
image Moldova (details) 4,455,421 0.5% 20,494
image Monaco (details) 36,371 82.3% 29,933
image Mongolia (details) 2,791,272 0.04% 1,116
image Montenegro (details) 625,266 3.4% 21,299
image Morocco (details) 32,725,847 0.07% 22,908
image Mozambique (details) 19,406,703 27.2%–28.4%–30.5% 5,270,000–9,900,000
image Myanmar (details) 42,909,464 1.1% 450,549
image Namibia (details) 2,030,692 22.8% 344,202
image Nauru (details) 10,084 32.96% 3,324
image   Nepal (details) 27,676,547 0.03% 8,302
image Netherlands (details) 18,000,000 17%–18.2%–20.8% 3,060,000–3,740,000
image New Zealand (details) 4,700,000 10.0% 470,000
image Nicaragua (details) 6,000,000 40%–50%–55% 2,400,000–3,000,000
image Niger (details) 11,665,937 0.1% 11,665
image Nigeria (details) 230,000,000 10.6%–12.6% 24,400,000–29,000,000
image North Macedonia (details) 1,836,713 0.4% 6,746
image Norway (details) 5,060,000 2.4%–3.02% 120,900
image Oman (details) 3,000,000 4.1% 110,000
image Pakistan (details) 207,000,000 0.8% 1,656,000
image Palau (details) 17,661 46.0% 8,124
image Palestine (details) 3,761,904 2% 80,000
image Panama (details) 3,500,000 55%–63%–70% 1,925,000–2,400,000
image Papua New Guinea (details) 7,000,000 26% 1,890,000
image Paraguay (details) 6,800,000 88.3%–89% 6,000,000
image Peru (details) 32,800,000 74%–76% 24,600,000
image Philippines (details) 108,700,000 78.8% 85,600,000
image Poland (details) 38,496,000 71.1% 27,121,000
image Portugal (details) 10,343,066 80.2% 7,043,016–8,260,000
image Qatar (details) 863,051 10.5% 350,000
image Romania (details) 22,329,977 4.7% 1,787,408
image Russia (details) 143,420,309 0.5% 717,101
image Rwanda (details) 11,000,000 43.7%–49.5% 4,807,000
image Saint Kitts and Nevis (details) 51,000 6.7% 3,400
image Saint Lucia (details) 165,600 61.3% 101,500
image Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (details) 106,000 7.5% 7,950
image Samoa (details) 179,000 19.6% 35,084
image San Marino (details) 32,500 90.5%–97% 29,412
image São Tomé and Príncipe (details) 163,000 73.5% 119,805
image Saudi Arabia (details) 26,417,599 2.5%–3.8%–7% 660,439–1,300,000
image Senegal (details) 11,126,832 3.5% 389,439
image Serbia (details) 7,120,600 6.1% 433,167
image Seychelles (details) 93,000 76.2% 70,866
image Sierra Leone (details) 6,017,643 2.9% 174,511
image Singapore (details) 6,052,486 6.7% 398,006
image Slovakia (details) 5,450,000 55.8% 3,038,511
image Slovenia (details) 2,116,972 69.92% 1,480,156
image Solomon Islands (details) 523,000 19% 100,000
image Somalia (details) 8,591,629 0.001% 100
image South Africa (details) 60,000,000 6.8% 4,080,000
image South Sudan (details) 10,000,000 39.7% 3,950,000
image Spain (details) 48,300,000 52.9%–59%–66.0%–67%–68%–70% 26,000,000–33,000,000
image Sri Lanka (details) 20,264,000 6.1% 1,237,000
image Sudan (details) 31,000,000 1% 300,000
image Suriname (details) 551,000 21.6% 119,000
image Swaziland (details) 1,100,000 4.9% 62,803
image Sweden (details) 10,000,000 1.8% 180,000
image  Switzerland (details) 9,000,000 30.7% 2,700,000
image Syria (details) 18,448,752 2.1% 368,975
image Taiwan (details) 22,894,384 1.3% 297,626
image Tajikistan (details) 7,163,506 0.01% <1,000
image Tanzania (details) 65,642,000 25.6–31.4% 16,604,000–20,611,000
image Thailand (details) 69,000,000 0.3%–0.58% 388,468
image Togo (details) 5,681,519 26.4% 1,499,921
image Tonga (details) 102,000 15.6% 15,912
image Trinidad and Tobago (details) 1,330,000 21.6% 286,000
image Tunisia (details) 11,000,000 0.2% 22,000
image Turkey (details) 77,700,000 0.05% 35,000
image Turkmenistan (details) 4,750,000 0.01% 500
image Tuvalu (details) 10,000 1% 100
image Uganda (details) 47,729,000 39.3%–45% 18,757,000–21,478,000
image Ukraine (details) 43,000,000 5.6%–10% 2,408,000–4,300,000
image United Arab Emirates (details) 2,563,212 5% 128,160
image United Kingdom (details) 63,100,000 9% 5,700,000
image United States (details) 341,000,000 20%21%–22%–23%–25% 68,200,000–71,600,000–75,020,000–78,430,000–85,250,000
image Uruguay (details) 3,500,000 38%–41%–42%–47.1% 1,330,000
image Uzbekistan (details) 26,851,195 0.01% 2,685
image Vatican City (details) 842 100% 842
image Vanuatu (details) 243,304 13.1% 36,500
image Venezuela (details) 32,000,000 64.2%–67%–71%–73% 20,000,000–23,360,000
image Vietnam (details) 96,208,984 6.1% 5,868,748
image Western Sahara (details) 273,008 0.06% 163
image Yemen (details) 20,727,063 0.02% 4,145
image Zambia (details) 14,300,000 21% 3,003,000
image Zimbabwe (details) 12,746,990 7.71% 982,792
Total 8,000,000,000 13.57%–17.68% 1,085,600,000–1,420,400,000

By dependent territory

Catholic Church by territory
Territory Total population % Catholic Catholic total
image U.S. Virgin Islands (details) 109,840 34% 37,345
image Anguilla (details) 14,108 5.7% 804
image Aruba (details) 101,484 75.3% 76,464
image British Virgin Islands (details) 24,041 9.5% 2,283
image Cayman Islands (details) 47,862 14.1% 6,748
image Curaçao (details) 142,180 72.8% 103,507
image Falkland Islands (details) 3,000 10% 300
image French Guiana (details) 221,500 75% 166,500
image Greenland (details) 55,984 0.2% 111
image Guadeloupe (details) 405,500 85.2% 345,486
image Guam (details) 154,623 85% 131,430
image Northern Mariana Islands (details) 51,659 64.1% 33,113
image Hong Kong (details) 7,409,800 5.3% 394,000
image Martinique (details) 390,000 80% 312,000
image Macau (details) 650,000 4.6% 30,000
image New Caledonia (details) 249,000 60.2% 150,000
image Puerto Rico (details) 3,600,000 56%-85% 2,000,000-3,060,000
image Réunion (details) 839,500 79.7% 669,249
image Saint Pierre and Miquelon (details) 6,025 93% 5,600
image Turks and Caicos Islands (details) 22,352 11.4% 2,548
image Wallis and Futuna (details) 14,231 95.8% 13,631

By region

These percentages were calculated by using the above numbers. The first percentage, 4th column, is the percentage of population that is Catholic in a region (number in the region x 100 / total population of the region). The last column shows the national Catholic percentage compared to the total Catholic population of the world (number in the region x 100 / total RC population of the world).

Africa

Catholic Church in Africa
Region Total population Catholic % Catholic % of global Catholic pop.
Central Africa 83,121,055 37,353,218 44.93% 3.47%
East Africa 193,741,900 34,872,130 17.99% 3.24%
North Africa 202,151,323 2,369,490 1.17% 0.22%
Southern Africa 137,092,019 24,463,640 17.84% 2.27%
West Africa 268,997,245 36,152,847 13.43% 3.36%
Total 885,103,542 135,211,325 15.27% 12.57%

Americas

Catholic Church in the Americas
Region Total population Catholic % Catholic % of global Catholic pop.
Caribbean 24,364,622 19,062,198 78.23% 1.77%
Central America 42,883,849 32,317,384 75.36% 3.00%
North America 448,587,847 173,212,640 38.61% 16.11%
South America 371,363,897 299,570,011 80.66% 27.87%
Total 887,200,215 524,162,233 59.08% 48.75%

Asia

Catholic Church in Asia
Region Total population Catholic % Catholic % of global Catholic pop.
Central Asia 92,019,166 199,086 1.23% 0.01%
East Asia 1,528,384,440 13,853,142 0.90% 1.28%
South Asia 1,437,326,682 20,107,050 1.39% 1.87%
Southeast Asia 571,337,070 86,701,421 15.17% 8.06%
Total 3,629,067,358 120,860,699 3.33% 11.24%

Europe

Catholic Church in Europe
Region Total population Catholic % Catholic % of global Catholic pop.
Southeast Europe 65,903,464 6,562,775 9.95% 0.61%
Central Europe 74,591,476 56,787,176 74.8% 5.19%
Eastern Europe 228,118,665 9,702,334 4.25% 0.90%
Western Europe 381,458,905 211,466,942 55.43% 19.67%
Total 730,072,510 285,916,457 37.85% 26.37%

West Asia & North Africa

Catholic Church in the Middle East
Region Total population Catholic % Catholic % of global Catholic pop.
Middle East 260,026,365 2,990,571 1.15% 0.27%

Oceania

Catholic Church in Oceania
Region Total population Catholic % Catholic % of global Catholic pop.
Oceania 30,686,468 7,747,654 25.24% 0.72%

See also

  • The term Roman Catholic
  • All pages with titles containing Roman Catholic
  • Christianity by country
  • List of Catholic archdioceses (by country and continent)
  • List of Catholic dioceses (alphabetical) (including archdioceses)
  • List of Catholic dioceses (structured view) (including archdioceses)
  • List of Christian denominations by number of members
  • List of current cardinals (sortable by name, country, and birthdate)
  • List of popes
  • List of religious populations
  • State religion#Roman Catholicism
  • Eastern Catholic Churches

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This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia s quality standards The specific problem is Lead section could be clearer less confusing and generally updated to better present scope in question Please help improve this article if you can April 2018 Learn how and when to remove this message The Catholic Church is the Catholic Communion of Churches both Roman and Eastern or Oriental that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome the pope The church is also known by members as the People of God the Body of Christ the Temple of the Holy Spirit among other names According to Vatican II s Gaudium et spes the church has but one sole purpose that the kingdom of God may come and the salvation of the human race may be accomplished Distribution of CatholicsPercentage of Catholics by country 2010 Number of Catholics by country 2010 ve This communion of churches comprises the Latin Church or the Roman or Western Church as well as 23 Eastern Catholic Churches canonically called sui juris churches each led by either a patriarch or a major archbishop in full communion with the Bishop of Rome Historically these bodies separated from Eastern Christian communions either to remain in or to return to full communion with the Catholic Church Vatican II decree on Eastern Catholic Churches however explicitly recognizes Eastern Catholic communities as true Churches and not just rites within the Catholic Church This Communion of Churches exists among and between the individual Churches and dioceses of the universal Catholic Church Its structural expression is the College of Bishops each of whom represents and embodies his own local church In addition to Eastern Catholic Churches the Catholic Church oversees the Catholic Charismatic renewal the largest Charismatic movement of a single institution in 2020 with over 100 million members primarily in the Global South The Catholic Church is also described as an amalgam of parts i e thousands of individual dioceses religious orders etc globally dispersed but in communion with Rome The Catholic Church is the world s oldest continuously functioning international institution It is also the largest non government provider of education and health care in the world while the diplomatic status of the Holy See facilitates the access of its vast international network of charities Some of these entities include 5 000 hospitals 10 000 orphanages 95 000 elementary schools and 47 000 secondary schools MethodologyMost of the figures are taken from the CIA Factbook or PEW Research Center Surveys In Latin American countries Latinobarometro is often cited In Germany and other German speaking regions of Europe there are official membership statistics due to the fact that the government collects a church tax based on these membership lists For this reason statistics are not grounded on surveys based solely on self identification One s baptismal certificate or any other religious document is likewise secondary to church statistics This method might explain the discrepancy between Pew s figures on Germany and the church figures According to the CIA Factbook and the Pew Research Center the five countries with the largest number of Catholics are in decreasing order of Catholic population Brazil Mexico Philippines United States Democratic Republic of the Congo The country where the membership of the church is the largest percentage of the population is Vatican City at 100 followed by East Timor at 97 According to the Census of the 2023 Annuario Pontificio Pontifical Yearbook the number of baptized Catholics in the world was about 1 376 billion at the end of 2021 The research initiative Catholics amp Cultures compiles data on Catholic demographics including from the Annuario Pontificio by country Conflicting numbers can be found in 2013 research conducted by the Brazilian polling institute Datafolha This report states that the percentage of the population in Brazil of Catholic religion over the age of 16 years is just 57 in contrast to the 64 63 published by CIA and to the 68 6 of Pew Research Center Also the 2010 Mexican Census showed this percentage to be 83 9 against a 91 89 number in the CIA World Factbook By countryBy clicking on the icons in the column titles the table can be re ordered by column Catholic Church by country Country Total population Catholic Catholic total Afghanistan details 29 928 987 0 0 Albania details 3 020 000 10 302 000 Algeria details 32 531 853 0 14 45 000 Andorra details 70 000 88 2 61 740 Angola details 35 121 734 41 1 50 55 56 4 60 12 500 000 20 000 000 Antigua and Barbuda details 84 816 5 5 4 752 Argentina details 47 300 000 48 9 62 9 63 63 3 66 23 100 000 31 200 000 Armenia details 3 018 854 0 3 8 695 Australia details 25 380 000 20 0 5 076 000 Austria details 9 185 000 50 6 4 640 000 Azerbaijan details 8 581 400 0 03 2 574 Bahamas details 330 000 12 39 600 Bahrain details 800 000 8 9 71 200 Bangladesh details 158 000 000 0 07 110 000 Barbados details 250 012 4 2 10 000 Belarus details 9 500 000 7 1 674 500 Belgium details 11 200 000 44 57 1 5 000 000 6 500 000 Belize details 334 000 40 133 600 Benin details 7 460 025 26 6 1 984 366 Bhutan details 2 232 291 0 06 1 339 Bolivia details 10 500 000 70 73 77 7 980 000 Bosnia and Herzegovina details 3 531 159 15 19 536 333 Botswana details 1 640 115 4 9 80 365 Brazil details 210 600 000 50 54 54 7 58 1 61 64 6 65 0 70 57 105 300 000 134 000 000 140 000 000 Brunei details 372 361 5 38 709 Bulgaria details 6 519 789 0 6 37 251 Burkina Faso details 13 925 313 20 1 4 121 536 Burundi details 12 000 000 62 1 7 440 000 Cabo Verde details 512 096 77 3 395 850 Cambodia details 13 607 069 lt 0 1 lt 10 000 Cameroon details 31 000 000 33 1 38 4 10 300 000 Canada details 40 769 890 29 9 12 189 931 Central African Republic details 3 799 897 29 949 974 Chad details 12 000 000 20 22 8 2 520 000 Chile details 18 000 000 42 45 52 6 55 64 66 6 8 100 000 9 468 000 12 000 000 China details 1 400 000 000 0 43 0 7 6 000 000 12 000 000 Colombia details 48 000 000 70 9 73 75 79 34 000 000 37 900 000 Comoros details 800 000 0 2 1 600 Congo Republic of details 5 062 021 33 1 52 9 1 675 529 2 409 661 Congo Democratic Republic of details 109 000 000 45 47 3 55 49 000 000 60 000 000 Costa Rica details 5 100 000 47 57 62 71 8 2 350 000 3 500 000 Croatia details 3 872 000 83 2 3 240 000 Cuba details 11 163 934 51 60 6 000 000 Cyprus details 1 100 000 2 9 11 000 Czech Republic details 10 524 167 9 3 985 318 Cote d Ivoire details 23 800 000 21 4 5 093 000 Denmark details 5 630 000 0 7 46 000 Djibouti details 476 703 0 2 953 Dominica details 71 540 58 1 41 564 Dominican Republic details 10 400 000 48 57 4 992 000 5 928 000 East Timor details 1 054 000 97 57 1 021 000 Ecuador details 15 223 680 69 5 77 0 79 80 4 11 265 523 Equatorial Guinea details 1 620 000 80 7 1 410 000 Egypt details 77 505 756 0 1 187 320 El Salvador details 7 000 000 39 47 50 2 730 000 3 500 000 Eritrea details 4 561 599 3 3 150 532 Estonia details 1 332 893 0 8 8 690 Ethiopia details 73 053 286 0 7 584 426 Federated States of Micronesia details 104 468 52 6 55 60 000 Fiji details 893 354 9 1 80 401 Finland details 5 451 270 0 2 12 434 France details 66 600 000 47 48 51 57 60 31 300 000 44 000 000 Gabon details 1 389 201 50 694 600 Gambia details 1 593 256 2 1 33 458 Georgia details 3 713 804 0 5 18 569 Germany details 84 400 000 24 0 20 346 000 Ghana details 30 792 608 10 0 3 079 261 Greece details 10 413 982 2 4 250 000 Grenada details 89 502 44 6 39 917 Guatemala details 15 773 000 43 45 50 7 000 000 Guinea details 9 467 866 2 6 246 164 Guinea Bissau details 1 416 027 8 9 126 026 Guyana details 746 955 7 1 53 034 Haiti details 10 000 000 54 7 56 7 56 8 5 470 000 Honduras details 8 800 000 37 46 3 256 000 4 048 000 Hungary details 9 877 000 29 2 38 1 53 0 56 62 2 808 000 6 123 740 Iceland details 355 277 3 9 13 799 India details 1 400 000 000 0 9 1 5 13 000 000 21 000 000 Indonesia details 270 000 000 3 12 8 424 000 Iran details 85 202 000 0 02 13 603 Iraq details 38 000 000 0 35 133 000 Ireland details 5 100 000 69 3 500 000 Israel details 7 746 000 1 2 92 952 Italy details 60 800 000 66 7 74 75 76 5 78 9 81 7 44 400 000 50 000 000 Jamaica details 2 697 983 2 2 59 356 Japan details 124 000 000 0 3 0 5 372 000 620 000 Jordan details 5 759 732 0 4 23 038 Kazakhstan details 15 185 844 0 6 91 115 Kenya details 47 560 000 20 6 9 816 000 Kiribati details 98 000 55 8 57 3 54 684 Korea North details 22 912 177 0 01 2 291 Korea South details 53 121 668 11 1 5 914 669 Kosovo details 1 739 825 1 4 25 837 Kuwait details 2 335 648 8 5 402 000 Kyrgyzstan details 5 146 281 0 1 5 146 Laos details 6 217 141 0 6 37 302 Latvia details 2 290 237 19 1 437 435 Lebanon details 4 800 000 28 8 1 382 400 Lesotho details 2 067 000 45 7 49 4 946 000 1 052 237 Liberia details 3 482 211 5 4 188 039 Libya details 5 765 563 0 7 40 358 Liechtenstein details 33 863 75 9 81 7 25 803 Lithuania details 2 810 761 77 2 2 085 340 Luxembourg details 538 000 63 8 65 9 369 600 Madagascar details 18 040 341 29 5 38 1 5 318 293 7 890 000 Malawi details 17 563 749 17 2 3 028 435 Malaysia details 34 671 895 4 63 1 570 000 Maldives details 349 106 0 02 80 Mali details 12 291 529 1 5 189 289 Malta details 428 000 82 6 361 372 Marshall Islands details 62 000 8 4 5 208 Mauritania details 3 086 859 0 1 3 086 Mauritius details 1 237 091 26 0 324 811 Mexico details 129 875 000 74 77 7 78 96 101 000 100 912 000 101 302 000 Moldova details 4 455 421 0 5 20 494 Monaco details 36 371 82 3 29 933 Mongolia details 2 791 272 0 04 1 116 Montenegro details 625 266 3 4 21 299 Morocco details 32 725 847 0 07 22 908 Mozambique details 19 406 703 27 2 28 4 30 5 5 270 000 9 900 000 Myanmar details 42 909 464 1 1 450 549 Namibia details 2 030 692 22 8 344 202 Nauru details 10 084 32 96 3 324 Nepal details 27 676 547 0 03 8 302 Netherlands details 18 000 000 17 18 2 20 8 3 060 000 3 740 000 New Zealand details 4 700 000 10 0 470 000 Nicaragua details 6 000 000 40 50 55 2 400 000 3 000 000 Niger details 11 665 937 0 1 11 665 Nigeria details 230 000 000 10 6 12 6 24 400 000 29 000 000 North Macedonia details 1 836 713 0 4 6 746 Norway details 5 060 000 2 4 3 02 120 900 Oman details 3 000 000 4 1 110 000 Pakistan details 207 000 000 0 8 1 656 000 Palau details 17 661 46 0 8 124 Palestine details 3 761 904 2 80 000 Panama details 3 500 000 55 63 70 1 925 000 2 400 000 Papua New Guinea details 7 000 000 26 1 890 000 Paraguay details 6 800 000 88 3 89 6 000 000 Peru details 32 800 000 74 76 24 600 000 Philippines details 108 700 000 78 8 85 600 000 Poland details 38 496 000 71 1 27 121 000 Portugal details 10 343 066 80 2 7 043 016 8 260 000 Qatar details 863 051 10 5 350 000 Romania details 22 329 977 4 7 1 787 408 Russia details 143 420 309 0 5 717 101 Rwanda details 11 000 000 43 7 49 5 4 807 000 Saint Kitts and Nevis details 51 000 6 7 3 400 Saint Lucia details 165 600 61 3 101 500 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines details 106 000 7 5 7 950 Samoa details 179 000 19 6 35 084 San Marino details 32 500 90 5 97 29 412 Sao Tome and Principe details 163 000 73 5 119 805 Saudi Arabia details 26 417 599 2 5 3 8 7 660 439 1 300 000 Senegal details 11 126 832 3 5 389 439 Serbia details 7 120 600 6 1 433 167 Seychelles details 93 000 76 2 70 866 Sierra Leone details 6 017 643 2 9 174 511 Singapore details 6 052 486 6 7 398 006 Slovakia details 5 450 000 55 8 3 038 511 Slovenia details 2 116 972 69 92 1 480 156 Solomon Islands details 523 000 19 100 000 Somalia details 8 591 629 0 001 100 South Africa details 60 000 000 6 8 4 080 000 South Sudan details 10 000 000 39 7 3 950 000 Spain details 48 300 000 52 9 59 66 0 67 68 70 26 000 000 33 000 000 Sri Lanka details 20 264 000 6 1 1 237 000 Sudan details 31 000 000 1 300 000 Suriname details 551 000 21 6 119 000 Swaziland details 1 100 000 4 9 62 803 Sweden details 10 000 000 1 8 180 000 Switzerland details 9 000 000 30 7 2 700 000 Syria details 18 448 752 2 1 368 975 Taiwan details 22 894 384 1 3 297 626 Tajikistan details 7 163 506 0 01 lt 1 000 Tanzania details 65 642 000 25 6 31 4 16 604 000 20 611 000 Thailand details 69 000 000 0 3 0 58 388 468 Togo details 5 681 519 26 4 1 499 921 Tonga details 102 000 15 6 15 912 Trinidad and Tobago details 1 330 000 21 6 286 000 Tunisia details 11 000 000 0 2 22 000 Turkey details 77 700 000 0 05 35 000 Turkmenistan details 4 750 000 0 01 500 Tuvalu details 10 000 1 100 Uganda details 47 729 000 39 3 45 18 757 000 21 478 000 Ukraine details 43 000 000 5 6 10 2 408 000 4 300 000 United Arab Emirates details 2 563 212 5 128 160 United Kingdom details 63 100 000 9 5 700 000 United States details 341 000 000 20 21 22 23 25 68 200 000 71 600 000 75 020 000 78 430 000 85 250 000 Uruguay details 3 500 000 38 41 42 47 1 1 330 000 Uzbekistan details 26 851 195 0 01 2 685 Vatican City details 842 100 842 Vanuatu details 243 304 13 1 36 500 Venezuela details 32 000 000 64 2 67 71 73 20 000 000 23 360 000 Vietnam details 96 208 984 6 1 5 868 748 Western Sahara details 273 008 0 06 163 Yemen details 20 727 063 0 02 4 145 Zambia details 14 300 000 21 3 003 000 Zimbabwe details 12 746 990 7 71 982 792Total 8 000 000 000 13 57 17 68 1 085 600 000 1 420 400 000By dependent territoryCatholic Church by territory Territory Total population Catholic Catholic total U S Virgin Islands details 109 840 34 37 345 Anguilla details 14 108 5 7 804 Aruba details 101 484 75 3 76 464 British Virgin Islands details 24 041 9 5 2 283 Cayman Islands details 47 862 14 1 6 748 Curacao details 142 180 72 8 103 507 Falkland Islands details 3 000 10 300 French Guiana details 221 500 75 166 500 Greenland details 55 984 0 2 111 Guadeloupe details 405 500 85 2 345 486 Guam details 154 623 85 131 430 Northern Mariana Islands details 51 659 64 1 33 113 Hong Kong details 7 409 800 5 3 394 000 Martinique details 390 000 80 312 000 Macau details 650 000 4 6 30 000 New Caledonia details 249 000 60 2 150 000 Puerto Rico details 3 600 000 56 85 2 000 000 3 060 000 Reunion details 839 500 79 7 669 249 Saint Pierre and Miquelon details 6 025 93 5 600 Turks and Caicos Islands details 22 352 11 4 2 548 Wallis and Futuna details 14 231 95 8 13 631By regionThese percentages were calculated by using the above numbers The first percentage 4th column is the percentage of population that is Catholic in a region number in the region x 100 total population of the region The last column shows the national Catholic percentage compared to the total Catholic population of the world number in the region x 100 total RC population of the world Africa Catholic Church in Africa Region Total population Catholic Catholic of global Catholic pop Central Africa 83 121 055 37 353 218 44 93 3 47 East Africa 193 741 900 34 872 130 17 99 3 24 North Africa 202 151 323 2 369 490 1 17 0 22 Southern Africa 137 092 019 24 463 640 17 84 2 27 West Africa 268 997 245 36 152 847 13 43 3 36 Total 885 103 542 135 211 325 15 27 12 57 Americas Catholic Church in the Americas Region Total population Catholic Catholic of global Catholic pop Caribbean 24 364 622 19 062 198 78 23 1 77 Central America 42 883 849 32 317 384 75 36 3 00 North America 448 587 847 173 212 640 38 61 16 11 South America 371 363 897 299 570 011 80 66 27 87 Total 887 200 215 524 162 233 59 08 48 75 Asia Catholic Church in Asia Region Total population Catholic Catholic of global Catholic pop Central Asia 92 019 166 199 086 1 23 0 01 East Asia 1 528 384 440 13 853 142 0 90 1 28 South Asia 1 437 326 682 20 107 050 1 39 1 87 Southeast Asia 571 337 070 86 701 421 15 17 8 06 Total 3 629 067 358 120 860 699 3 33 11 24 Europe Catholic Church in Europe Region Total population Catholic Catholic of global Catholic pop Southeast Europe 65 903 464 6 562 775 9 95 0 61 Central Europe 74 591 476 56 787 176 74 8 5 19 Eastern Europe 228 118 665 9 702 334 4 25 0 90 Western Europe 381 458 905 211 466 942 55 43 19 67 Total 730 072 510 285 916 457 37 85 26 37 West Asia amp 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