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Variables: Total number of Catholics by country and percent of population that are Catholics: All Christians in communion with the Church of Rome, also known as Roman Catholics. Affiliated Catholics are defined here as baptized Catholics plus catechumens. (World Religion Database, 2020) (Catholics)1


% Catholics


NATION

REGION

Catholics
(2020)1 [X]

% Catholics
(2020)1 [X]
Afghanistan South-Central Asia 200 0.00
Akrotiri Western Asia
Albania Southern Europe 515,000 17.90
Algeria Northern Africa 6,500 0.01
American Samoa Polynesia 16,000 28.99
Andorra Southern Europe 66,058 85.50
Angola Middle Africa 17,700,000 53.85
Anguilla Caribbean 720 4.80
Antarctica Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda Caribbean 8,600 8.78
Argentina South America 35,500,000 78.55
Armenia Western Asia 250,000 8.44
Aruba Caribbean 81,400 76.24
Australia Australia/New Zealand 6,600,000 25.88
Austria Western Europe 5,327,000 59.15
Azerbaijan Western Asia 650 0.01
Bahamas, The Caribbean 53,500 13.60
Bahrain Western Asia 170,000 9.99
Bangladesh South-Central Asia 420,000 0.26
Barbados Caribbean 11,000 3.83
Belarus Eastern Europe 1,000,000 10.58
Belgium Western Europe 7,030,000 60.66
Belize Central America 284,000 71.42
Benin Western Africa 2,870,000 23.67
Bermuda Northern America 9,300 14.93
Bhutan South-Central Asia 1,370 0.18
Bolivia South America 9,500,000 81.38
Bosnia and Herzegovina Southern Europe 400,000 12.19
Botswana Southern Africa 125,000 5.32
Bougainville Melanesia
Brazil South America 150,000,000 70.57
British Indian Ocean Territory Eastern Africa
British Virgin Islands Caribbean 850 2.81
Brunei South-Eastern Asia 20,000 4.57
Bulgaria Eastern Europe 73,000 1.05
Burkina Faso Western Africa 3,200,000 15.31
Burma (Myanmar) South-Eastern Asia 660,000 1.21
Burundi Eastern Africa 7,577,000 63.72
Cambodia South-Eastern Asia 25,000 0.15
Cameroon Middle Africa 7,055,000 26.58
Canada Northern America 14,100,000 37.36
Cape Verde Western Africa 498,000 89.57
Caribbean Netherlands Caribbean 18,000 68.65
Cayman Islands Caribbean 8,100 12.33
Central African Republic Middle Africa 1,849,216 38.29
Chad Middle Africa 2,564,400 15.61
Channel Islands Northern Europe 22,900 13.17
Chile South America 12,900,000 67.48
China Eastern Asia 10,000,000 0.69
China-Tibet Eastern Asia
Christmas Island Australia/New Zealand
Cocos (Keeling) Islands Australia/New Zealand
Colombia South America 43,800,000 86.08
Comoros Eastern Africa 2,600 0.30
Congo, Democratic Republic of the Middle Africa 49,200,000 54.93
Congo, Republic of the Middle Africa 3,400,000 61.62
Cook Islands Polynesia 4,900 27.90
Costa Rica Central America 3,886,824 76.30
Cote d'Ivoire Western Africa 4,800,000 18.20
Croatia Southern Europe 3,431,090 83.58
Cuba Caribbean 6,082,000 53.70
Curacao Caribbean 121,000 73.74
Cyprus Western Asia 11,700 0.97
Czech Republic Eastern Europe 3,300,500 30.82
Denmark Northern Europe 44,900 0.78
Dhekelia Western Asia
Djibouti Eastern Africa 7,570 0.77
Dominica Caribbean 42,000 58.34
Dominican Republic Caribbean 8,798,300 81.11
Ecuador South America 14,900,000 84.45
Egypt Northern Africa 280,000 0.27
El Salvador Central America 4,600,000 70.92
Equatorial Guinea Middle Africa 1,000,000 71.28
Eritrea Eastern Africa 175,000 4.93
Estonia Northern Europe 5,800 0.44
Ethiopia Eastern Africa 900,000 0.78
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) South America 730 20.96
Faroe Islands Northern Europe 180 0.37
Fiji Melanesia 115,000 12.83
Finland Northern Europe 16,500 0.30
France Western Europe 38,540,000 59.04
French Guiana South America 233,000 78.01
French Polynesia Polynesia 120,000 42.72
Gabon Middle Africa 1,080,000 48.52
Gambia, The Western Africa 70,000 2.90
Georgia Western Asia 40,000 1.00
Germany Western Europe 24,300,000 29.00
Ghana Western Africa 4,100,000 13.19
Gibraltar Southern Europe 28,060 83.29
Greece Southern Europe 138,000 1.32
Greenland Northern America 140 0.25
Grenada Caribbean 54,900 48.79
Guadeloupe Caribbean 400,000 89.15
Guam Micronesia (region) 137,700 81.58
Guatemala Central America 12,150,000 67.82
Guernsey Northern Europe
Guinea Western Africa 300,000 2.28
Guinea-Bissau Western Africa 215,000 10.92
Guyana South America 63,000 8.01
Haiti Caribbean 7,600,000 66.65
Honduras Central America 6,800,000 68.65
Hong Kong Eastern Asia 590,000 7.87
Hungary Eastern Europe 5,800,000 60.04
Iceland Northern Europe 13,000 3.81
India South-Central Asia 21,100,000 1.53
Indonesia South-Eastern Asia 8,100,000 2.96
Iran South-Central Asia 6,000 0.01
Iraq Western Asia 100,000 0.25
Ireland Northern Europe 3,729,100 75.52
Isle of Man Northern Europe 6,800 8.00
Israel Western Asia 110,000 1.27
Italy Southern Europe 45,100,000 74.59
Jamaica Caribbean 80,000 2.70
Japan Eastern Asia 535,000 0.42
Jersey Northern Europe
Jordan Western Asia 29,000 0.28
Kazakhstan South-Central Asia 130,000 0.69
Kenya Eastern Africa 12,100,000 22.50
Kiribati Micronesia (region) 56,800 47.55
Korea, (North) Democratic Republic of Eastern Asia 3,001 0.01
Korea, (South) Republic of Eastern Asia 5,500,000 10.73
Kosovo Southern Europe 62,000 2.96
Kuwait Western Asia 400,000 9.37
Kyrgyzstan South-Central Asia 500 0.01
Laos South-Eastern Asia 46,200 0.64
Latvia Northern Europe 427,000 22.64
Lebanon Western Asia 1,930,000 28.28
Lesotho Southern Africa 1,175,000 54.85
Liberia Western Africa 400,000 7.91
Libya Northern Africa 10,000 0.15
Liechtenstein Western Europe 27,600 72.37
Lithuania Northern Europe 2,100,000 77.14
Luxembourg Western Europe 460,000 73.49
Macau Eastern Asia 32,050 4.94
Macedonia Southern Europe 16,000 0.77
Madagascar Eastern Africa 7,000,000 25.28
Malawi Eastern Africa 6,350,000 33.19
Malaysia South-Eastern Asia 1,500,000 4.63
Maldives South-Central Asia 800 0.15
Mali Western Africa 288,000 1.42
Malta Southern Europe 390,000 88.33
Marshall Islands Micronesia (region) 5,500 9.29
Martinique Caribbean 360,000 95.93
Mauritania Western Africa 5,230 0.11
Mauritius Eastern Africa 271,412 21.34
Mayotte Eastern Africa 553 0.20
Mexico Central America 115,574,000 89.64
Micronesia, Federated States of Micronesia (region) 65,000 56.51
Moldova Eastern Europe 20,000 0.50
Monaco Western Europe 32,200 82.05
Mongolia Eastern Asia 1,300 0.04
Montenegro Southern Europe 22,950 3.65
Montserrat Caribbean 400 8.00
Morocco Northern Africa 18,500 0.05
Mozambique Eastern Africa 7,300,000 23.36
Namibia Southern Africa 480,000 18.89
Nauru Micronesia (region) 3,300 30.46
Nepal South-Central Asia 7,500 0.03
Netherlands Western Europe 4,445,000 25.94
New Caledonia Melanesia 143,624 50.31
New Zealand Australia/New Zealand 543,000 11.26
Nicaragua Central America 5,150,000 77.74
Niger Western Africa 21,000 0.09
Nigeria Western Africa 25,536,000 12.39
Niue Polynesia 150 9.27
Norfolk Island Australia/New Zealand
Northern Cyprus Western Asia
Northern Mariana Islands Micronesia (region) 41,300 71.76
Norway Northern Europe 180,000 3.32
Occupied Palestinian Territories Western Asia 15,000 0.29
Oman Western Asia 120,000 2.35
Pakistan South-Central Asia 1,160,000 0.53
Palau Micronesia (region) 8,200 45.32
Panama Central America 3,120,000 72.31
Papua New Guinea Melanesia 2,300,000 25.71
Paraguay South America 6,236,800 87.44
Peru South America 28,200,000 85.53
Philippines South-Eastern Asia 83,000,000 75.74
Pitcairn Islands Polynesia
Poland Eastern Europe 34,100,000 90.10
Portugal Southern Europe 8,700,000 85.32
Puerto Rico Caribbean 2,080,000 72.71
Qatar Western Asia 352,918 12.25
Reunion Eastern Africa 705,000 78.74
Romania Eastern Europe 1,400,000 7.28
Russia Eastern Europe 700,000 0.48
Rwanda Eastern Africa 5,409,994 41.77
Saint Barthelemy Caribbean
Saint Helena Western Africa 120 1.98
Saint Kitts and Nevis Caribbean 4,800 9.02
Saint Lucia Caribbean 124,700 67.91
Saint Martin Caribbean
Saint Pierre and Miquelon Northern America 5,309 91.61
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Caribbean 7,600 6.85
Samoa Polynesia 38,000 19.15
San Marino Southern Europe 29,000 85.45
Sao Tome and Principe Middle Africa 160,500 73.23
Saudi Arabia Western Asia 1,935,000 5.56
Senegal Western Africa 818,000 4.89
Serbia Southern Europe 400,000 6.02
Seychelles Eastern Africa 79,500 80.84
Sierra Leone Western Africa 280,000 3.51
Singapore South-Eastern Asia 270,000 4.62
Sint Maarten Caribbean 25,000 58.30
Slovakia Eastern Europe 3,950,000 72.35
Slovenia Southern Europe 1,540,100 74.08
Solomon Islands Melanesia 138,000 20.09
Somalia Eastern Africa 100 0.00
Somaliland Eastern Africa
South Africa Southern Africa 3,850,000 6.49
South Sudan Eastern Africa 5,750,000 51.37
Spain Southern Europe 39,170,000 83.78
Spanish North Africa Northern Africa
Sri Lanka South-Central Asia 1,570,000 7.33
Sudan Northern Africa 1,100,000 2.51
Suriname South America 170,000 28.98
Svalbard Northern Europe
Swaziland Southern Africa 58,140 5.01
Sweden Northern Europe 120,000 1.19
Switzerland Western Europe 3,516,000 40.63
Syria Western Asia 200,000 1.14
Taiwan Eastern Asia 240,000 1.01
Tajikistan South-Central Asia 200 0.00
Tanzania Eastern Africa 16,630,000 27.84
Thailand South-Eastern Asia 385,000 0.55
Timor-Leste South-Eastern Asia 1,077,185 81.70
Togo Western Africa 2,250,644 27.19
Tokelau Polynesia 500 37.04
Tonga Polynesia 14,400 13.62
Trinidad and Tobago Caribbean 380,000 27.15
Tunisia Northern Africa 19,000 0.16
Turkey Western Asia 45,000 0.05
Turkmenistan South-Central Asia 200 0.00
Turks and Caicos Islands Caribbean 600 1.55
Tuvalu Polynesia 100 0.85
Uganda Eastern Africa 19,400,000 42.41
Ukraine Eastern Europe 4,900,000 11.20
United Arab Emirates Western Asia 977,000 9.88
United Kingdom Northern Europe 6,400,000 9.43
United States (General) Northern America 73,900,000 22.33
Uruguay South America 1,850,000 53.26
Uzbekistan South-Central Asia 3,500 0.01
Vanuatu Melanesia 33,000 10.74
Vatican City Southern Europe 799 98.76
Venezuela South America 22,900,000 80.53
Vietnam South-Eastern Asia 7,221,000 7.42
Virgin Islands (U.S.) Caribbean 37,000 35.43
Wallis and Futuna Polynesia 10,634 94.56
Western Sahara Northern Africa 821 0.14
Yemen Western Asia 1,000 0.00
Zambia Eastern Africa 6,000,000 32.64
Zimbabwe Eastern Africa 1,930,000 12.99
       

Sources

1 Todd M. Johnson and Brian J. Grim, eds. World Religion Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022).

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