Which country has the highest % Catholic?

Timor-Leste has the highest % Catholic, at 97.5%, followed by San Marino (90.5%) and Poland (90.0%).

Which country has the lowest % Catholic?

Yemen has the lowest % Catholic, at 0.01%.

What is the median % Catholic across countries?

The median is 21.6% across the 158 countries with data.

Where does this highest catholic population data come from?

Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: The Global Catholic Population - Pew Research; Field Listing - Religions - CIA World Factbook; Countries With The Largest Roman Catholic Populations - World Atlas; Catholic Church by country - Wiki.

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Highest Catholic Population

Name: Highest Catholic Population
Creator: Rankodex

Timor-Leste has the highest % Catholic (97.5%), followed by San Marino (90.5%) and Poland (90.0%). Yemen has the lowest (0.01%).

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Ranking

Highest first: the first 15 and last 5 of 158 countries.

Distribution Median and middle halfThe median is the middle value: half of places are above it, half below. The middle half is the range holding the central 50% of places.More in the glossary →

Each dot is one country; the lines mark the median and the middle half.

Median

21.6%

Middle half 5.75% – 56.2%

Average

31.8%

158 countries

Highest

97.5%

Timor-Leste

Lowest

0.01%

Yemen

Data

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222 countries · # = rank by % Catholic

#
1	Timor-Leste	97.5%	1M
2	San Marino	90.5%	28K
3	Poland	90.0%	27.3M
4	Andorra	88.2%	61.7K
5	Paraguay	88.0%	6M
6	Lithuania	86.0%	2.2M
7	Malta	82.6%	361.4K
8	Italy	81.2%	50M
9	Croatia	80.7%	3.2M
9	Equatorial Guinea	80.7%	1.4M
11	Portugal	80.2%	8.3M
12	Haiti	80.0%	5.5M
12	Panama	80.0%	2.4M
14	Colombia	79.0%	39M
15	Philippines	78.8%	89M
16	Mexico	78.0%	101.3M
17	Monaco	77.0%	30K
18	Peru	76.0%	26.7M
18	Bolivia	76.0%	8M
20	Aruba	75.7%	76.5K
21	Ecuador	74.0%	11.3M
22	Ireland	73.8%	3.5M
23	Liechtenstein	72.5%	28K
24	Gibraltar	72.1%	—
25	Cape Verde	72.0%	395.9K
26	Venezuela	71.0%	23.4M
27	Seychelles	69.3%	70.9K
28	Luxembourg	68.7%	369.6K
29	Argentina	66.0%	31.2M
30	Dominican Republic	65.0%	5.9M
31	Slovenia	64.0%	1.5M
32	Burundi	60.0%	7M
33	Slovakia	59.8%	3M
34	Kiribati	59.0%	54.7K
35	Nicaragua	58.8%	3M
36	Spain	58.2%	33M
37	France	57.5%	44M
38	Costa Rica	57.0%	3.5M
39	Brazil	56.8%	115.3M
40	Sao Tome and Principe	56.3%	120K
41	Puerto Rico	56.0%	3.1M
42	Austria	54.9%	4.6M
43	Micronesia	54.7%	60K
44	Chile	54.6%	10.6M
45	Dominica	54.3%	41.6K
46	Saint Lucia	52.8%	101.5K
47	Cuba	52.7%	6M
48	El Salvador	52.6%	3.5M
49	DR Congo	50.0%	60M
49	Republic of the Congo	50.0%	2.4M
51	Guatemala	47.0%	7M
51	Honduras	47.0%	4M
51	Uruguay	47.0%	1.3M
54	Palau	46.4%	8,124
55	Lesotho	45.0%	1.1M
56	Cameroon	44.4%	10.3M
57	Angola	44.2%	20M
58	Belgium	44.0%	6.5M
59	Gabon	41.9%	694.6K
60	Rwanda	40.0%	4.8M
61	Hungary	39.0%	6.1M
62	Switzerland	37.9%	2.7M
63	Uganda	37.4%	22M
64	Nauru	34.0%	3,324
65	Grenada	33.9%	45K
66	Belize	32.2%	133.6K
67	South Sudan	30.0%	4M
68	Canada	29.9%	12.2M
69	Central African Republic	29.0%	950K
70	Mozambique	27.6%	9.9M
71	Papua New Guinea	27.0%	1.9M
72	Lebanon	26.0%	1.4M
73	Benin	25.5%	2M
74	Latvia	25.1%	437.4K
75	Mauritius	25.0%	324.8K
76	Trinidad and Tobago	24.3%	286K
77	Germany	23.7%	19.8M
78	United States	22.7%	85M
79	Suriname	21.6%	119K
80	Australia	21.5%	5.1M
81	Kenya	20.6%	9.8M
82	Burkina Faso	20.1%	4.1M
83	Chad	20.0%	2.5M
83	Solomon Islands	20.0%	100K
83	American Samoa	20.0%	—
86	Samoa	18.0%	35.1K
87	Zambia	17.9%	3M
88	Malawi	17.2%	3M
89	Netherlands	17.0%	3.7M
90	Cook Islands	16.7%	—
91	Bosnia and Herzegovina	15.2%	536.3K
92	Bermuda	15.1%	—
93	Namibia	13.7%	344.2K
93	Tonga	13.7%	13.6K
95	Cayman Islands	13.6%	9,348
96	Czechia	13.4%	985.3K
97	Vanuatu	12.1%	36.5K
98	Bahamas	12.0%	39.6K
99	Nigeria	10.6%	29M
99	Montserrat	10.6%	—
101	Ghana	10.0%	3.1M
101	New Zealand	10.0%	445K
101	Albania	10.0%	302K
104	Marshall Islands	9.3%	5,208
105	British Virgin Islands	9%	2,283
106	Antigua and Barbuda	8.6%	4,752
107	South Korea	7.9%	5.9M
108	Ukraine	7.5%	4.3M
109	Belarus	7.1%	674.5K
109	Guyana	7.1%	53K
111	United Kingdom	7%	5.7M
111	United Arab Emirates	7%	128.2K
111	Singapore	7%	398K
114	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6.6%	7,950
115	Zimbabwe	6.4%	982.8K
116	Sri Lanka	6.2%	1.2M
117	Vietnam	6.1%	5.9M
118	Saint Kitts and Nevis	5.9%	3,400
119	Turks and Caicos Islands	5.7%	2,458
120	Hong Kong	5.4%	394K
121	Romania	5.2%	1.8M
122	South Africa	5%	4.1M
122	Guinea	5%	246.2K
122	Botswana	5%	80.4K
125	Barbados	4.2%	10K
126	Eritrea	4%	150.5K
127	Iceland	3.9%	13.8K
128	Eswatini	3.4%	62.8K
129	Montenegro	3.3%	21.3K
130	Kuwait	3.2%	402K
131	Indonesia	3.06%	8.4M
132	Anguilla	3%	804
133	Norway	2.4%	120.9K
134	Jamaica	2.2%	59.4K
135	Syria	2%	369K
136	Serbia	1.87%	433.2K
137	Cyprus	1.8%	11K
138	India	1.3%	21M
139	Sweden	1.2%	180K
140	Myanmar	1%	450.5K
140	Greece	1%	250K
142	Estonia	0.9%	8,690
143	Denmark	0.8%	46K
144	Ethiopia	0.7%	584.4K
144	Bulgaria	0.7%	38.7K
146	China	0.69%	12M
147	Armenia	0.6%	8,695
148	Japan	0.5%	620K
148	Libya	0.5%	40.4K
148	Georgia	0.5%	18.6K
148	Tuvalu	0.5%	100
152	North Macedonia	0.4%	6,746
153	Finland	0.3%	12.4K
154	Tajikistan	0.1%	1,000
154	Moldova	0.1%	20.5K
154	Bhutan	0.1%	1,339
157	Algeria	0.01%	45K
157	Yemen	0.01%	4,145
—	Pakistan	—	1.9M
—	Bangladesh	—	110K
—	Russia	—	717.1K
—	Egypt	—	187.3K
—	Iran	—	13.6K
—	Turkey	—	35K
—	Tanzania	—	20.6M
—	Thailand	—	388.5K
—	Sudan	—	300K
—	Iraq	—	133K
—	Morocco	—	22.9K
—	Uzbekistan	—	2,685
—	Malaysia	—	1.6M
—	Saudi Arabia	—	660.4K
—	Madagascar	—	7.9M
—	Ivory Coast	—	5.1M
—	Nepal	—	8,302
—	Niger	—	11.7K
—	North Korea	—	2,291
—	Mali	—	189.3K
—	Taiwan	—	297.6K
—	Kazakhstan	—	91.1K
—	Somalia	—	100
—	Senegal	—	389.4K
—	Cambodia	—	10K
—	Tunisia	—	22K
—	Jordan	—	23K
—	Azerbaijan	—	2,574
—	Togo	—	1.5M
—	Israel	—	93K
—	Sierra Leone	—	174.5K
—	Laos	—	37.3K
—	Turkmenistan	—	500
—	Kyrgyzstan	—	5,146
—	Liberia	—	188K
—	Palestine	—	80K
—	Oman	—	110K
—	Mauritania	—	3,086
—	Mongolia	—	1,116
—	Qatar	—	350K
—	Gambia	—	33.5K
—	Guinea-Bissau	—	126K
—	Bahrain	—	71.2K
—	Djibouti	—	953
—	Fiji	—	80.4K
—	Comoros	—	1,600
—	Reunion	—	669.2K
—	Macau	—	30K
—	Western Sahara	—	163
—	Maldives	—	80
—	Brunei	—	38.7K
—	Guadeloupe	—	345.5K
—	Martinique	—	312K
—	French Guiana	—	166.5K
—	New Caledonia	—	150K
—	Curacao	—	103.5K
—	Guam	—	131.4K
—	United States Virgin Islands	—	37.3K
—	Greenland	—	111
—	Northern Mariana Islands	—	33.1K
—	Wallis and Futuna	—	13.6K
—	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	—	5,600
—	Falkland Islands	—	300
—	Vatican City	—	842

What correlates with % Catholic?

Pearson r against 1,357 other country metrics sharing at least 95 countries. Correlation is not causation.

Higher together

Places that have a higher % Catholic tend to score higher on these

% ChristiansMost Christian Countries
r = +0.45 · moderate · n = 158
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O+ Blood TypeBlood Type by Country
r = +0.39 · moderate · n = 95
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Environmental Sustainability ScoreEnergy Trilemma Energy Performance Index
r = +0.33 · moderate · n = 97
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Erect Length (cm)Penis Size by Country
r = +0.32 · moderate · n = 107
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Erect Length (in)Penis Size by Country
r = +0.32 · moderate · n = 107
Plot
Average Penis LengthCondom Size by Country
r = +0.32 · moderate · n = 107
Plot

Opposite directions

Places that have a higher % Catholic tend to score lower on these

% Protestant/Ortodox/Other ChristianMost Christian Countries
r = −0.54 · strong · n = 154
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B+ Blood TypeBlood Type by Country
r = −0.45 · moderate · n = 95
Plot
AB+ Blood TypeBlood Type by Country
r = −0.43 · moderate · n = 95
Plot
Religious FractionalizationMost Diverse Countries
r = −0.38 · moderate · n = 147
Plot
ObjectiveLists Conservative Country ScoreMost Conservative Countries
r = −0.38 · moderate · n = 114
Plot
% Muslim via PewMuslim Population by Country
r = −0.37 · moderate · n = 135
Plot

Quick answers

Which country has the highest % Catholic?: Timor-Leste has the highest % Catholic, at 97.5%, followed by San Marino (90.5%) and Poland (90.0%).
Which country has the lowest % Catholic?: Yemen has the lowest % Catholic, at 0.01%.
What is the median % Catholic across countries?: The median is 21.6% across the 158 countries with data.
Where does this highest catholic population data come from?: Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: The Global Catholic Population - Pew Research; Field Listing - Religions - CIA World Factbook; Countries With The Largest Roman Catholic Populations - World Atlas; Catholic Church by country - Wiki.