Catholic Church by country explained

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)."[1] 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.[1] According to Vatican II's Latin: [[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."[1] [2]

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.[3] 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."[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

The Catholic Church is the "world's oldest continuously functioning international institution."[7] It is also the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world,[8] 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.[9]

Methodology

Most of the figures are taken from the CIA Factbook[10] or PEW Research Center Surveys.[11] [12] [13] In Latin American countries, Latinobarometro is often cited.[14] 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.[15] This method might explain the discrepancy between Pew's figures on Germany[16] and the church figures.[17] [18]

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:

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.[19]

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%,[20] 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%[21] against a 91.89% number in the CIA World Factbook.

By country

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% Catholic! data-sort-type="number"
Catholic total
Afghanistan (details)29,928,9870%0[22]
Albania (details)3,020,00010%[23] 302,000
Algeria (details)32,531,8530.14%[24] 45,000
Andorra (details)70,00088.2%61,740
Angola (details)31,100,00041.1%-50%[25] -55%[26] -56.4%[27] -60%[28] 12,500,000-20,000,000[29]
Antigua and Barbuda (details)84,8165.5%[30] 4,752
Argentina (details)47,300,00048.9%[31] -62.9%[32] -63%[33] -63.3%[34] -66%23,100,000 - 31,200,000
Armenia (details)3,018,8540.3%[35] 8,695
Australia (details)25,380,00020.0%[36] 5,076,000
Austria (details)9,100,00052.0%4,733,200[37]
Azerbaijan (details)8,581,4000.03%2,574
Bahamas (details)330,00012%39,600
Bahrain (details)800,0008.9%71,200
Bangladesh (details)158,000,0000.07% 110,000
Barbados (details)250,0124.2%10,000
Belarus (details)9,500,0007.1%[38] 674,500
Belgium (details)11,200,00044%[39] -57.1%5,000,000-6,500,000
Belize (details)334,00040%[40] 133,600
Benin (details)7,460,02526.6%[41] 1,984,366
Bhutan (details)2,232,2910.06%1,339
(details)10,500,00070%[42] -73%-77%7,980,000
Bosnia and Herzegovina (details)3,531,15915.19%[43] 536,333
Botswana (details)1,640,1154.9%80,365
Brazil (details)210,600,00050%[44] -54%-54.7%[45] -58.1%[46] -61%[47] -64.6%[48] -65.0%[49] 105,300,000 - 134,000,000[50] - 140,000,000[51] [52]
(details)372,3615%38,709
Bulgaria (details)6,519,7890.6%[53] 37,251
Burkina Faso (details)13,925,31320.1%[54] 4,121,536
Burundi (details)12,000,00062.1%7,440,000
(details)512,09677.3%395,850
Cambodia (details)13,607,069<0.1% <10,000
Cameroon (details)25,640,96538.4%9,846,000
Canada (details)40,769,890[55] 29.9[56] 12,189,931
Central African Republic (details)3,799,89729%[57] 949,974
Chad (details)12,000,00020%-22.8%[58] 2,520,000
Chile (details)18,000,00042%[59] -45%[60] -52.6%[61] -55%[62] -64%-66.6%[63] 8,100,000 - 9.468,000 - 12,000,000
China (details)1,400,000,0000.43%-0.7%6,000,000[64] -12,000,000[65]
Colombia (details)48,000,00070.9%[66] [67] -73%[68] -75%[69] -79%[70] 34,000,000-37,900,000
Comoros (details)800,0000.2%1,600
(details)5,062,02133.1%-52.9%[71] 1,675,529-2,409,661
(details)100,000,00037%-45%[72] -47.3%-55.8%[73] 37,000,000 -45,000,000 -55,800,000
Costa Rica (details)5,100,00047%[74] [75] -57%-62%-71.8%[76] [77] [78] 2,350,000 - 3,500,000
Croatia (details)3,872,00079.0%[79] 3,060,000
Cuba (details)11,163,93451%-60%[80] [81] 6,000,000[82]
Cyprus (details)1,100,0002.9%[83] 11,000
Czech Republic (details)10,524,1679.3%[84] 985,318
Cote d'Ivoire (details)23,800,000[85] 21.4%5,093,000
Denmark (details)5,630,0000.7%[86] 46,000
Djibouti (details)476,7030.2%953
Dominica (details)71,54058.1%41,564
Dominican Republic (details)10,400,00048%-57%4,992,000 - 5,928,000
(details)1,054,00097.57%[87] 1,021,000
Ecuador (details)15,223,68069.5%-77.0%-79%-80.4%[88] [89] 11,265,523
Equatorial Guinea (details)1,620,00080.7%1,410,000
Egypt (details)77,505,7560.1%187,320[90]
El Salvador (details)7,000,00039%-47%[91] -50% 2,730,000 - 3,500,000
Eritrea (details)4,561,5993.3%150,532
Estonia (details)1,332,8930.8%[92] 8,690
Ethiopia (details)73,053,2860.7%584,426
(details)104,46852.6%[93] -55%[94] 60,000
Fiji (details)893,3549.1%80,401
Finland (details)5,451,2700.2%[95] [96] [97] 12,434
France (details)66,600,00047%[98] -48%[99] -51%[100] -57%[101] -60%[102] 31,300,000–44,000,000
Gabon (details)1,389,20150%694,600
Gambia (details)1,593,2562.1%33,458
Georgia (details)3,713,8040.5%[103] 18,569
Germany (details)84,400,00024.0%[104] 20,346,000
Ghana (details)30,792,60810.0%[105] 3,079,261
Greece (details)10,413,982[106] 2.4%250,000[107]
Grenada (details)89,50244.6%39,917
Guatemala (details)15,773,00043%-45%[108] -50% 7,000,000
Guinea (details)9,467,8662.6%246,164
Guinea-Bissau (details)1,416,0278.9%126,026
Guyana (details)746,9557.1%[109] 53,034
Haiti (details)10,000,00054.7%-56.7%-56.8%[110] 5,470,000
Honduras (details)8,800,00037%[111] -46%[112] 3,256,000-4,048,000
Hungary (details)9,877,00029.2%[113] - 38.1%[114] –53.0%[115] -56%[116] -62%.[117] 2,808,000-6,123,740
Iceland (details)355,2773.9%[118] 13,799
India (details)1,400,000,0000.9%–1.5%[119] 13,000,000-21,000,000
Indonesia (details)270,000,0003.12%[120] [121] 8,424,000
(details)85,202,0000.02%13,603
Iraq (details)38,000,0000.35%133,000
Ireland (details)5,100,00069%[122] 3,500,000
Israel (details)7,746,0001.2%92,952
Italy (details)60,800,00074%[123] -75%[124] -76.5%[125] -78.9%[126] -81.7%[127] 44,400,000 - 50,000,000
Jamaica (details)2,697,9832.2%[128] 59,356
Japan (details)127,417,2440.3%- 0.5%[129] 382,251
Jordan (details)5,759,7320.4%23,038
Kazakhstan (details)15,185,8440.6%91,115
Kenya (details)47,560,00020.6%[130] 9,816,000
Kiribati (details)98,00055.8%-57.3%[131] 54,684
(details)22,912,1770.01%2,291
(details)53,121,66811.1%[132] 5,914,669
(details)1,739,8251.4%[133] 25,837
Kuwait (details)2,335,6488.5%402,000
Kyrgyzstan (details)5,146,2810.1%5,146
(details)6,217,1410.6%37,302
Latvia (details)2,290,23719.1%437,435
Lebanon (details)4,800,00028.8%1,382,400
Lesotho (details)2,067,00045.7%-49.4%[134] 946,000-1,052,237
Liberia (details)3,482,2115.4%188,039
Libya (details)5,765,5630.7%40,358
Liechtenstein (details)33,86375.9%-81.7%25,803
Lithuania (details)2,810,76177.2%[135] 2,085,340
Luxembourg (details)538,00063.8%-65.9%369,600
Madagascar (details)18,040,34129.5%-38.1%[136] 5,318,293-7,890,000
Malawi (details)17,563,74917.2%[137] 3,028,435
Malaysia (details)34,671,8954.63%[138] 1,570,000
Maldives (details)349,1060.02%80
Mali (details)12,291,5291.5%189,289
Malta (details)428,00082.6%[139] 361,372
Marshall Islands (details)62,0008.4%5,208
Mauritania (details)3,086,8590.1%3,086
Mauritius (details)1,237,09126.0%[140] 324,811
Mexico (details)129,875,00074%-77.7%[141] 78%[142] [143] 96,101,000-100,912,000-101,302,000
(details)4,455,4210.5%20,494
Monaco (details)36,37182.3%29,933
Mongolia (details)2,791,2720.04%1,116
Montenegro (details)625,2663.4%21,299
Morocco (details)32,725,8470.07%22,908
Mozambique (details)19,406,70327.2%-28.4%-30.5%[144] 5,270,000 - 9,900,000
Myanmar (details)42,909,4641.1%450,549
Namibia (details)2,030,69222.8%[145] 344,202
Nauru (details)10,08432.96%[146] 3,324
Nepal (details)27,676,5470.03%8,302
Netherlands (details)18,000,00017%[147] -18.2%[148] -20.8%[149] 3,060,000-3,740,000
New Zealand (details)4,700,00010.0%[150] 470,000
Nicaragua (details)6,000,00040%-50%-55%[151] [152] 2,400,000-3,000,000
Niger (details)11,665,9370.1%11,665
Nigeria (details)230,000,00010.6%[153] -12.6%24,400,000-29,000,000
(details)1,836,7130.4%[154] 6,746
Norway (details)5,060,0002.4%[155] -3.02%[156] 120,900
Oman (details)3,000,0004.1%110,000
Pakistan (details)207,000,0000.8%1,656,000
Palau (details)17,66146.0%[157] 8,124
(details)3,761,9042%80,000
Panama (details)3,500,00055%-63%[158] -70%1,925,000 - 2,400,000
Papua New Guinea (details)7,000,00026%[159] 1,890,000
Paraguay (details)6,800,00088.3%[160] -89%6,000,000
Peru (details)32,800,00074%-76%[161] 24,600,000
Philippines (details)108,700,000[162] 78.8%[163] 85,600,000
Poland (details)38,496,00071.1%[164] 27,121,000
Portugal (details)10,343,066[165] 80.2%[166] 7,043,016-8,260,000
Qatar (details)863,05110.5%350,000
Romania (details)22,329,9774.7%1,787,408
(details)143,420,3090.5%717,101
Rwanda (details)11,000,00043.7%[167] -49.5%[168] 4,807,000
Saint Kitts and Nevis (details)51,0006.7%3,400
Saint Lucia (details)165,60061.3%101,500
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (details)106,0007.5%7,950
Samoa (details)179,00019.6%35,084
San Marino (details)32,50090.5%-97%[169] 29,412
(details)163,00073.5%119,805
Saudi Arabia (details)26,417,5992.5%-3.8%-7%[170] 660,439-1,300,000
Senegal (details)11,126,8323.5%389,439
Serbia (details)7,120,6006.1%433,167
Seychelles (details)93,00076.2%[171] 70,866
Sierra Leone (details)6,017,6432.9%174,511
Singapore (details)6,052,4866.7%[172] 398,006
Slovakia (details)5,450,00055.8%[173] 3,038,511
Slovenia (details)2,095,86172.1%[174] [175] 1,509,986
Solomon Islands (details)523,00019%100,000
Somalia (details)8,591,6290.001%100
South Africa (details)44,344,1367.1%2,851,327
(details)10,000,00039.7%[176] 3,950,000
Spain (details)48,300,00052.9%[177] -59%[178] -66.0%[179] -67%[180] -68%[181] -70%[182] 26,000,000-33,000,000
Sri Lanka (details)20,264,0006.1%[183] 1,237,000
Sudan (details)31,000,0001%300,000
Suriname (details)551,00021.6%[184] 119,000
Swaziland (details)1,100,0004.9%62,803
Sweden (details)10,000,0001.8%180,000
Switzerland (details)8,900,00032.1[185] 2,850,000
(details)18,448,7522.1%368,975
(details)22,894,3841.3%297,626
Tajikistan (details)7,163,5060.01% <1,000
(details)65,642,000[186] 25.6[187] -31.4%[188] 16,604,000-20,611,000
Thailand (details)69,000,0000.3%-0.58%[189] [190] 388,468[191] [192]
Togo (details)5,681,51926.4%1,499,921
Tonga (details)102,00015.6%15,912
Trinidad and Tobago (details)1,330,00021.6%[193] 286,000
Tunisia (details)11,000,0000.2%22,000
Turkey (details)77,700,0000.05%35,000
Turkmenistan (details)4,750,0000.01%[194] 500
Tuvalu (details)10,0001%100
Uganda (details)47,729,000[195] 39.3%[196] -45%[197] 18,757,000-21,478,000
Ukraine (details)43,000,0005.6% -10%[198] [199] [200] 2,408,000-4,300,000
United Arab Emirates (details)2,563,2125%128,160
United Kingdom (details)63,100,0009%[201] [202] [203] [204] 5,700,000
United States (details)336,360,491[205] 20%[206] 21%[207] [208] -22%[209] [210] [211] [212] [213] -23%[214] -25%[215] 67,257,000-70,614,000-73,977,000-77,339,000-84,065,000
Uruguay (details)3,500,00038%-41%[216] -42%-47.1%1,330,000
Uzbekistan (details)26,851,1950.01%2,685
(details)842100%842
Vanuatu (details)243,30413.1%36,500
(details)32,000,00064.2%-67%-71%[217] -73%20,000,000 -23,360,000
(details)96,208,9846.1%[218] 5,868,748
Western Sahara (details)273,0080.06%163
Yemen (details)20,727,0630.02%4,145
Zambia (details)14,300,00021%3,003,000
Zimbabwe (details)12,746,9907.71%982,792
Total8,000,000,000[219] [220] 13.57% - 17.68%1,085,600,000 - 1,420,400,000

By dependent territory

% Catholic! data-sort-type="number"
Catholic total
(details)109,84034%37,345
Anguilla (details)14,1085.7%804
Aruba (details)101,48475.3%[221] 76,464
(details)24,0419.5%2,283
Cayman Islands (details)47,86214.1%6,748
(details)142,18072.8%103,507
(details)3,00010%300
French Guiana (details)221,50075%166,500
Greenland (details)55,9840.2%111
Guadeloupe (details)405,50085.2%345,486
Guam (details)154,62385%131,430
Northern Mariana Islands (details)51,65964.1%33,113
Hong Kong (details)7,409,8005.3%394,000[222]
Martinique (details)390,00080%312,000
(details)650,0004.6%[223] 30,000
New Caledonia (details)249,00060.2%150,000
Puerto Rico (details)3,600,00056%[224] -85%2,000,000-3,060,000
Reunion (details)839,50079.7%669,249
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (details)6,02593%5,600
Turks and Caicos Islands (details)22,35211.4%2,548
Wallis and Futuna (details)14,23195.8%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
RegionTotal populationCatholic% Catholic% of global Catholic pop.
Central Africa83,121,05537,353,21844.93%3.47%
East Africa193,741,90034,872,13017.99%3.24%
North Africa202,151,3232,369,4901.17%0.22%
Southern Africa137,092,01924,463,64017.84%2.27%
West Africa268,997,24536,152,84713.43%3.36%
Total885,103,542135,211,32515.27%12.57%

Americas

Catholic Church in the Americas
RegionTotal populationCatholic% Catholic% of global Catholic pop.
Caribbean24,364,62219,062,19878.23%1.77%
Central America42,883,84932,317,38475.36%3.00%
North America448,587,847173,212,64038.61%16.11%
South America371,363,897299,570,01180.66%27.87%
Total887,200,215524,162,23359.08%48.75%

Asia

Catholic Church in Asia
RegionTotal populationCatholic% Catholic% of global Catholic pop.
Central Asia92,019,166199,0861.23%0.01%
East Asia1,528,384,44013,853,1420.90%1.28%
South Asia1,437,326,68220,107,0501.39%1.87%
Southeast Asia571,337,07086,701,42115.17%8.06%
Total3,629,067,358120,860,6993.33%11.24%

Europe

Catholic Church in Europe
RegionTotal populationCatholic% Catholic% of global Catholic pop.
Southeast Europe65,903,4646,562,7759.95%0.61%
Central Europe74,591,47656,787,17674.8%5.19%
Eastern Europe228,118,6659,702,3344.25%0.90%
Western Europe381,458,905211,466,94255.43%19.67%
Total730,072,510285,916,45737.85%26.37%

Oceania

See also

Notes and References

  1. Richard P. McBrien. The Church: The Evolution of Catholicism. (New York: Harper One, 2008) p.447
  2. Web site: Gaudium et spes. Vatican.va.
  3. Edward P. Hahnenberg. A CONCISE GUIDE TO THE DOCUMENTS OF VATICAN II (Cincinnati, OH: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2007).
  4. McBrien, 447.
  5. Dr. Todd M. Johnson, "Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity" World Christian Encyclopedia 3rd edition, Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
  6. Michael W. Higgins, "Promises to keep," The Tablet, 2 July 2022, 10. As Canadian bishops noted in the article, there is no "Catholic church of Canada" (i.e., no national church as the Anglican "Church of Canada" or "Church of England"), only a "Catholic Church in Canada." "Its dioceses report to Rome, not to Ottawa; the Church is not a national or univocal entity but an amalgam of separate parts." Each diocese operates self-reliantly or independently of the others.
  7. Mark A. Noll. THE NEW SHAPE OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2009), 191.
  8. Agnew. John. Deus Vult: The Geopolitics of Catholic Church. Geopolitics. 12 February 2010. 15. 1. 39–61. 10.1080/14650040903420388. 144793259.
  9. Johnson, "Catholicism Worldwide," World Christian Encyclopedia, Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
  10. Web site: The World Factbook. https://web.archive.org/web/20190110080854/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/fields/401.html. dead. 10 January 2019. 2018. CIA World Factbook. 2 May 2019.
  11. Web site: PEW Research Center: Christian Population as Percentages of Total Population by Country 2010. 19 December 2011. 13 October 2015.
  12. Web site: PEW Research Center: Religion in Latin America 2014. 13 November 2014. 14 October 2015.
  13. Web site: PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Sahara Africa . 6 November 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093021/http://www.pewforum.org/files/2010/04/sub-saharan-africa-chapter-1.pdf . 4 March 2016 .
  14. Latinobarometro, Opinion Publica Latinoamericana, Enero 2018.
  15. "Church Tax In Germany Explained [2021 English Guide] by Jen-July 3, 2021. Simple Germany
  16. "Five Centuries After Reformation, Catholic-Protestant Divide in Western Europe Has Faded," Pew Research Center, 31 July 2017
  17. See Philip Hammond, "Religion and the Persistence of Identify," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 27, 1988. According to Pew stats (31 July 2017, "Five Centuries After the Reformation," p. 4), 42% of Germans polled self-identified as Catholic. However, according to the official records of the German Catholic Church (based on the church tax), less than 28% were listed as Catholic.
  18. Also see: "German Catholics' Path to Heaven Comes with Taxes," Sylvia Poggioli, All Things Considered, NPR, 9 Oct., 2012
  19. Web site: Catholics by Country. Catholicsandcultures.org. 2 July 2022.
  20. Web site: Percentual de Catolicos no Brasil. 22 July 2013.
  21. Web site: Censo de Poblacion y Vivienda 2010 . 22 July 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925230110/http://www.inegi.gob.mx/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/censos/poblacion/2010/princi_result/cpv2010_principales_resultadosVI.pdf . 25 September 2013 .
  22. Web site: Catholic News Agency. The leader of Afghanistan's Catholic community longs to return to the country . 24 August 2023. en-US. Andrea. Gagliarducci. 29 November 2021.
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