Catholic Population

For this Ash Wednesday market size post, we looked up the size of the worldwide Catholic population, presented below. According to the source, half of all Catholics (49.4%) live in the Americas, a region of the world that contains about 14% of total world population.

Geographic reference: World
Year: 2009
Market size: 1.181 billion.
Source: “World Catholic Population Growing; Mixed Results on Priestly, Religious Vocations,” CatholicCulture.org, February 21, 2011, available online here.
Original source: Annuario Pontifico, 2011 edition, The Vatican.

2 thoughts on “Catholic Population

  1. This is a quite striking statistic — nearly half in the U.S. Your sources are quite “catholic” to use an old meaning of that word, namely “universal.”

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