Vatican Statistical Yearbook - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Fri, 09 Apr 2021 23:19:41 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Vatican Statistical Yearbook - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Vatican statistics show Catholic numbers have grown by 16 million https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/04/12/vatican-statistics-show-catholics-grown-by-16-million/ Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:55:39 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=135171 The Vatican's Statistical Yearbook shows that there has been a steady growth in the number of Catholics in every continent except for Europe. At the end of 2019, the worldwide Catholic population exceeded 1.34 billion or about 17.7% of the world's population. This marked an increase of 16 million Catholics or 1.12% increase compared to Read more

Vatican statistics show Catholic numbers have grown by 16 million... Read more]]> The Vatican's Statistical Yearbook shows that there has been a steady growth in the number of Catholics in every continent except for Europe.

At the end of 2019, the worldwide Catholic population exceeded 1.34 billion or about 17.7% of the world's population.

This marked an increase of 16 million Catholics or 1.12% increase compared to 2018 while the world's population grew by 1.08%.

The Vatican regularly brings out a Statistical Yearbook of the Church, the latest showing church figures as of Dec. 31, 2019.

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