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Catholic Church by country

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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)." This communion comprises the Latin Church (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 pope. Historically, these bodies separated from Eastern Christian communions, either to remain in or to return to full communion with the Catholic Church. The Vatican II decree on Eastern Catholic Churches, however, explicitly recognizes them as churches and not just rites within the Catholic Church. This communion "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 and religious orders) 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 access to its vast international network of charities. 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's World Factbook or Pew Research Center surveys.{{cite web |access-date=6 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093021/http://www.pewforum.org/files/2010/04/sub-saharan-africa-chapter-1.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 and the church figures.

According to The World Factbook and Pew, the five countries with the largest number of Catholics are, in decreasing order:

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

The country with the largest percentage of its population having membership in the church is Vatican City at 100%, followed by Timor-Leste at 97%.

According to the World Christian Database, there are 1.272 billion Catholics worldwide as of 2025, which constitute 48.1% of 2.645 billion Christians. 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. Its report states that the Catholic percentage of the Brazilian population over the age of 16 years is 57%, in contrast to the 64.63% published by CIA and the 68.6% of Pew. Also, the 2010 Mexican census showed this percentage to be 83.9%against a 91.89% number in The World Factbook.

By country

By clicking on the arrow icons in the column headers, the following table can be re-ordered.

CountryTotal population% CatholicCatholic totalTotal8,000,000,00013.57%–17.68%1,085,600,000–1,420,400,000
Afghanistan (details)29,928,9870%0
Albania (details)3,020,00010%302,000
Algeria (details)32,531,8530.14%45,000
Andorra (details)70,00085.5%–88.2%61,740
Angola (details)35,121,73441.1%–50%–55%{{cite webyear=2015title=Introduction - Religions in Angola: History, Gender and Politicsurl=https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/17157569/SSM_Introduction_Angola_2015.pdf}}–56.4%–60%12,500,000–20,000,000
Antigua and Barbuda (details)84,8165.5%4,752
Argentina (details)47,300,00062.9%South America: Argentina -29,000,000–31,000,000
Armenia (details)3,018,8540.3%8,695
Australia (details)25,380,00020.0%5,076,000
Austria (details)9,197,00049.6%4,557,000
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%674,500
Belgium (details)11,200,00044%5,000,000–6,500,000
Belize (details)334,00040%133,600
Benin (details)7,460,02526.6%1,984,366
Bhutan (details)2,232,2910.06%1,339
Bolivia (details)10,500,00063%–70%–73%7,980,000
Bosnia and Herzegovina (details)3,531,15915.19%536,333
Botswana (details)1,640,1154.9%80,365
Brazil (details)203,080,00056.75%100,200,000–115,250,000
Brunei (details)372,3615%38,709
Bulgaria (details)6,445,4810.6%38,709
Burkina Faso (details)13,925,31320.1%4,121,536
Burundi (details)12,000,00058.6%7,000,000
Cabo Verde (details)512,09672.5%395,850
Cambodia (details)13,607,069
Cameroon (details)31,000,00033.1%–38.4%10,300,000
Canada (details)40,769,89029.912,189,931
Central African Republic (details)3,799,89729%949,974
Chad (details)12,000,00020%–22.8%2,520,000
Chile (details)19,764,77153.7% (15+)10,611,000
China (details)1,400,000,0000.43%–0.7%6,000,000–12,000,000
Colombia (details)52,000,00056.6%–70.9% Based on a 2010 survey in "major30,000,000–39,000,000
Comoros (details)800,0000.2%1,600
Congo, Republic of (details)5,062,02133.1%–52.9%1,675,529–2,409,661
Congo, Democratic Republic of (details)109,000,00045%–47.3%–55%49,000,000–60,000,000
Costa Rica (details)5,100,00047%–57%{{cite webtitle=Costa Ricadate=11 February 2022url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/costa-rica/publisher=The World Factbookquote=Roman Catholic 71.8%, Evangelical and Pentecostal 12.3%, other Protestant 2.6%, Jehovah's Witness 0.5%, other 2.4%, none 10.4%}}2,350,000–3,500,000
Croatia (details)3,872,00083.2%3,240,000
Cuba (details)11,163,93451%–60%6,000,000
Cyprus (details)1,100,0002.9%11,000
Czech Republic (details)10,524,1679.3%985,318
Côte d'Ivoire (details)23,800,00021.4%5,093,000
Denmark (details)5,630,0000.7%46,000
Djibouti (details)476,7030.2%953
Dominica (details)71,54058.1%41,564
Dominican Republic (details)10,400,00043%–48%–57%4,992,000–5,928,000
East Timor (details)1,054,00097.57%1,021,000
Ecuador (details)15,223,68065%–69.5%–77.0%–79%–80.4%{{cite webpublisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas y Censosdate=15 August 2012title=INEC presenta por primera vez estadísticas sobre religiónpublisher=According to a 2012 survey by the National Institute of Statistics and Census, the most recent government survey available, approximately 92 percent of the population professes a religious affiliation or belief. Of those, 80.4 percent is Roman Catholic; 11.3 percent evangelical Christian, including Pentecostals; and 1.3 percent Jehovah's Witnesses. Seven percent belongs to other religious groupstitle=ECUADOR 2018 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORTurl=https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ECUADOR-2018-INTERNATIONAL-RELIGIOUS-FREEDOM-REPORT.pdf}}11,265,523
Equatorial Guinea (details)1,620,00080.7%1,410,000
Egypt (details)77,505,7560.1%187,320
El Salvador (details)7,000,00039%–50%2,730,000–3,500,000
Eritrea (details)4,561,5993.3%150,532
Estonia (details)1,332,8930.8%8,690
Ethiopia (details)73,053,2860.7%584,426
Federated States of Micronesia (details)104,46852.6%–55%{{cite webpublisher=United States Department of Statetitle=2019 Report on International Religious Freedom: Micronesiaurl=https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-report-on-international-religious-freedom/micronesia/}}60,000
Fiji (details)893,3549.1%80,401
Finland (details)5,451,2700.2%12,434
France (details)66,600,00047%–48%–51%–57%–60%31,000,000–44,000,000
Gabon (details)1,389,20150%694,600
Gambia (details)1,593,2562.1%33,458
Georgia (details)3,713,8040.5%18,569
Germany (details)83,550,00023.7%{{Cite weburl=https://www.dbk.de/presse/aktuelles/meldung/kirchenstatistik-2024date=2025-03-28first=Deutschelast=Bischofskonferenzwebsite=Deutsche Bischofskonferenzaccess-date=30 March 2025}}19,770,000
Ghana (details)30,792,60810.0%3,079,261
Greece (details)10,413,9822.4%250,000
Grenada (details)115,00039.2%45,000
Guatemala (details)15,773,00039%–43%–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%53,034
Haiti (details)10,000,00054.7%–56.7%–56.8%5,470,000
Honduras (details)8,800,00036%–37%–46%3,256,000–4,048,000
Hungary (details)9,877,00029.2%–38.1%–53.0%–56%–62%.2,808,000–6,123,740
Iceland (details)355,2773.9%13,799
India (details)1,400,000,0000.9%–1.5%13,000,000–21,000,000
Indonesia (details)270,000,0003.12%8,424,000
Iran (details)85,202,0000.02%13,603
Iraq (details)38,000,0000.35%133,000
Ireland (details)5,100,00069%3,500,000
Israel (details)7,746,0001.2%92,952
Italy (details)60,800,00066.7%–74%–75%–76.5%–78.9%–81.7%44,000,000–50,000,000
Jamaica (details)2,697,9832.2%59,356
Japan (details)124,000,0000.3%– 0.5%372,000–620,000
Jordan (details)5,759,7320.4%23,038
Kazakhstan (details)15,185,8440.6%91,115
Kenya (details)47,560,00020.6%{{cite weburl=https://www.knbs.or.ke/?wpdmpro=2019-kenya-population-and-housing-census-volume-iv-distribution-of-population-by-socio-economic-characteristics&wpdmdl=5730&ind=7HRl6KateNzKXCJaxxaHSh1qe6C1M6VHznmVmKGBKgO5qIMXjby1XHM2u_swXdiRtitle=2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume IV: Distribution of Population by Socio-Economic Characteristicswebsite=Kenya National Bureau of Statistics}}9,816,000
Kiribati (details)98,00055.8%–57.3%54,684
Korea, North (details)22,912,1770.01%2,291
Korea, South (details)53,121,66811.1%5,914,669
Kosovo (details)1,739,8251.4%25,837
Kuwait (details)2,335,6488.5%402,000
Kyrgyzstan (details)5,146,2810.1%5,146
Laos (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%946,000–1,052,237
Liberia (details)3,482,2115.4%188,039
Libya (details)5,765,5630.7%40,358
Liechtenstein (details)40,00069.6%28,000
Lithuania (details)2,900,00074.2%2,200,000
Luxembourg (details)538,00063.8%–65.9%369,600
Madagascar (details)18,040,34129.5%5,318,293–7,890,000
Malawi (details)17,563,74917.2%3,028,435
Malaysia (details)34,671,8954.63%1,570,000
Maldives (details)349,1060.02%80
Mali (details)12,291,5291.5%189,289
Malta (details)428,00082.6%361,372
Marshall Islands (details)62,0008.4%5,208
Mauritania (details)3,086,8590.1%3,086
Mauritius (details)1,237,09126.0%324,811
Mexico (details)130,000,00069.4%–74%–77.7% 78%90,000,000–96,101,000–100,912,000–101,302,000
Moldova (details)4,455,4210.5%20,494
Monaco (details)38,00077.8%–82.3%30,000
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%5,270,000–9,900,000
Myanmar (details)42,909,4641.1%450,549
Namibia (details)2,030,69222.8%344,202
Nauru (details)10,08432.96%3,324
Nepal (details)27,676,5470.03%8,302
Netherlands (details)18,000,00017%–18.2%–20.8%3,060,000–3,740,000
New Zealand (details)5,000,0008.9–10.0%445,000
Nicaragua (details)6,000,00040%2,400,000–3,000,000
Niger (details)11,665,9370.1%11,665
Nigeria (details)230,000,00010.6%–12.6%24,400,000–29,000,000
North Macedonia (details)1,836,7130.4%6,746
Norway (details)5,060,0002.4%–3.02%120,900
Oman (details)3,000,0004.1%110,000
Pakistan (details)241,500,0000.8%1,930,000
Palau (details)17,66146.0%8,124
Palestine (details)3,761,9042%80,000
Panama (details)3,500,00052%–55%–70%1,925,000–2,400,000
Papua New Guinea (details)7,000,00026%1,890,000
Paraguay (details)6,800,00072%–88.3%–89%6,000,000
Peru (details)34,300,00064%–74%26,725,000
Philippines (details)114,000,00078.8%89,000,000
Poland (details)38,496,00071.1%27,332,000
Portugal (details)10,343,06680.2%7,043,016–8,260,000
Qatar (details)863,05110.5%350,000
Romania (details)22,329,9774.7%1,787,408
Russia (details)143,420,3090.5%717,101
Rwanda (details)11,000,00043.7%–49.5%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)32,50085.5–90.5%28,000
São Tomé and Príncipe (details)200,00055.7–73.5%120,000
Saudi Arabia (details)26,417,5992.5%–3.8%–7%660,439–1,300,000
Senegal (details)11,126,8323.5%389,439
Serbia (details)7,120,6006.1%433,167
Seychelles (details)93,00070%–76.2%70,866
Sierra Leone (details)6,017,6432.9%174,511
Singapore (details)6,052,4866.7%398,006
Slovakia (details)5,450,00055.8%3,038,511
Slovenia (details)2,116,97269.92%1,480,156
Solomon Islands (details)523,00019%100,000
Somalia (details)8,591,6290.001%100
South Africa (details)60,000,0006.8%4,080,000
South Sudan (details)10,000,00039.7%3,950,000
Spain (details)48,300,00052.9%–59%–66.0%–67%–68%–70%26,000,000–33,000,000
Sri Lanka (details)20,264,0006.1%1,237,000
Sudan (details)31,000,0001%300,000
Suriname (details)551,00021.6%119,000
Swaziland (details)1,100,0004.9%62,803
Sweden (details)10,000,0001.8%180,000
Switzerland (details)9,000,00030.0%2,700,000
Syria (details)18,448,7522.1%368,975
Taiwan (details)22,894,3841.3%297,626
Tajikistan (details)7,163,5060.01%
Tanzania (details)65,642,00025.6–31.4%16,604,000–20,611,000
Thailand (details)69,000,0000.3%–0.58%388,468
Togo (details)5,681,51926.4%1,499,921
Tonga (details)102,00013.7%13,649
Trinidad and Tobago (details)1,330,00021.6%286,000
Tunisia (details)11,000,0000.2%22,000
Turkey (details)77,700,0000.05%35,000
Turkmenistan (details)4,750,0000.01%500
Tuvalu (details)10,0001%100
Uganda (details)49,000,00039.3%–45%19,200,000–22,000,000
Ukraine (details)43,000,0005.6%–10%Razumkov Center, 26 May 2016 pp 22,29.\2,408,000–4,300,000
United Arab Emirates (details)2,563,2125%128,160
United Kingdom (details)63,100,0009%5,700,000
United States (details)341,000,00019%-20% 21%"About65,000,000–85,000,000
Uruguay (details)3,500,00033%–38%–42%–47.1%1,330,000
Uzbekistan (details)26,851,1950.01%2,685
Vatican City (details)842100%842
Vanuatu (details)243,30413.1%36,500
Venezuela (details)32,000,00064.2%–67%–73%20,000,000–23,360,000
Vietnam (details)96,208,9846.1%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

By dependent territory

TerritoryTotal population% CatholicCatholic total
U.S. Virgin Islands (details)109,84034%37,345
Anguilla (details)14,1085.7%804
Aruba (details)101,48475.3%76,464
British Virgin Islands (details)24,0419.5%2,283
Cayman Islands (details)68,81113.6%9,348
Curaçao (details)142,18072.8%103,507
Falkland Islands (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
Martinique (details)390,00080%312,000
Macau (details)650,000url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130805020311/http://www.pewforum.org/files/2011/12/Christianity-fullreport-web.pdfdate=5 August 2013}}, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Washington, D.C. December 2011. Accessed June 2014. Note: The Pew methodology produced an estimated world Catholic population of 1.1 Billion in 2010.30,000
New Caledonia (details)249,00060.2%150,000
Puerto Rico (details)3,600,00056%–85%2,000,000–3,060,000
Réunion (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 are calculated by using the above numbers. The first percentage, in the fourth column, is the percentage of the population that is Catholic in a region (number in the region × 100 / total population of the region). The last column shows the regional Catholic percentage out of the total Catholic population of the world (number in the region × 100 / world Catholic population).

Africa

RegionTotal populationCatholic% Catholic% of global Catholic pop.Total885,103,542135,211,32515.27%12.57%
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%

Americas

RegionTotal populationCatholic% Catholic% of global Catholic pop.Total887,200,215524,162,23359.08%48.75%
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%

Asia

RegionTotal populationCatholic% Catholic% of global Catholic pop.Total3,629,067,358120,860,6993.33%11.24%
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%

Europe

RegionTotal populationCatholic% Catholic% of global Catholic pop.Total730,072,510285,916,45737.85%26.37%
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%

West Asia and North Africa

RegionTotal populationCatholic% Catholic% of global Catholic pop.
Middle East260,026,3652,990,5711.15%0.27%

Oceania

RegionTotal populationCatholic% Catholic% of global Catholic pop.
Oceania30,686,4687,747,65425.24%0.72%

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