FACTOID # 3: India has more Catholic Priests than Ireland, Austria and Portugal combined.
 
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Religion Statistics > Catholic > Total Priests (per capita) (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1   Malta: 2.36115 per 1,000 people 
#2   Ireland: 1.24328 per 1,000 people 
#3   Liechtenstein: 0.919418 per 1,000 people 
#4   Italy: 0.882829 per 1,000 people 
#5   Belgium: 0.743439 per 1,000 people 
#6   Poland: 0.698454 per 1,000 people 
#7   Spain: 0.657024 per 1,000 people 
#8   Monaco: 0.617113 per 1,000 people 
#9   Gibraltar: 0.609669 per 1,000 people 
#10   Luxembourg: 0.571952 per 1,000 people 
#11   Slovenia: 0.566385 per 1,000 people 
#12   Austria: 0.547098 per 1,000 people 
#13   Croatia: 0.516904 per 1,000 people 
#14   Slovakia: 0.455533 per 1,000 people 
#15   Switzerland: 0.412739 per 1,000 people 
#16   Portugal: 0.38605 per 1,000 people 
#17   France: 0.380655 per 1,000 people 
#18   Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 0.285225 per 1,000 people 
#19   Canada: 0.26624 per 1,000 people 
#20   Germany: 0.228215 per 1,000 people 
#21   Netherlands: 0.219358 per 1,000 people 
#22   Lithuania: 0.214345 per 1,000 people 
#23   Hungary: 0.21385 per 1,000 people 
#24   Equatorial Guinea: 0.202255 per 1,000 people 
#25   Czech Republic: 0.188458 per 1,000 people 
#26   Puerto Rico: 0.186909 per 1,000 people 
#27   Colombia: 0.183126 per 1,000 people 
#28   Seychelles: 0.172439 per 1,000 people 
#29   Costa Rica: 0.168825 per 1,000 people 
#30   United States: 0.157057 per 1,000 people 
#31   Australia: 0.151319 per 1,000 people 
#32   Argentina: 0.145657 per 1,000 people 
#33   Chile: 0.144609 per 1,000 people 
#34   Uruguay: 0.141101 per 1,000 people 
#35   Ecuador: 0.140676 per 1,000 people 
#36   Reunion: 0.140293 per 1,000 people 
#37   Saint Helena: 0.134048 per 1,000 people 
#38   New Zealand: 0.132342 per 1,000 people 
#39   Bosnia and Herzegovina: 0.130474 per 1,000 people 
#40   Bolivia: 0.125875 per 1,000 people 
#41   Paraguay: 0.125551 per 1,000 people 
#42   Panama: 0.122293 per 1,000 people 
#43   Cape Verde: 0.114771 per 1,000 people 
#44   East Timor: 0.108549 per 1,000 people 
#45   El Salvador: 0.100373 per 1,000 people 
#46   Solomon Islands: 0.100366 per 1,000 people 
#47   United Kingdom: 0.09932 per 1,000 people 
#48   Peru: 0.0984387 per 1,000 people 
#49   Papua New Guinea: 0.0939585 per 1,000 people 
#50   Dominican Republic: 0.0900552 per 1,000 people 
#51   Brazil: 0.0878767 per 1,000 people 
#52   Venezuela: 0.0877241 per 1,000 people 
#53   Gabon: 0.0868006 per 1,000 people 
#54   Mauritius: 0.0844842 per 1,000 people 
#55   Philippines: 0.0842961 per 1,000 people 
#56   Cameroon: 0.0805863 per 1,000 people 
#57   Romania: 0.0772951 per 1,000 people 
#58   Guatemala: 0.0729982 per 1,000 people 
#59   Togo: 0.0711111 per 1,000 people 
#60   Nicaragua: 0.0706313 per 1,000 people 
#61   Lesotho: 0.0689316 per 1,000 people 
#62   Eritrea: 0.0620985 per 1,000 people 
#63   Central African Republic: 0.0618216 per 1,000 people 
#64   Rwanda: 0.0605379 per 1,000 people 
#65   Korea, South: 0.0591065 per 1,000 people 
#66   Madagascar: 0.0590355 per 1,000 people 
#67   Uganda: 0.0575379 per 1,000 people 
#68   Benin: 0.0575239 per 1,000 people 
#69   Kenya: 0.0572864 per 1,000 people 
#70   Tanzania: 0.056574 per 1,000 people 
#71   Ukraine: 0.0558334 per 1,000 people 
#72   Guinea-Bissau: 0.0552017 per 1,000 people 
#73   Zambia: 0.0546972 per 1,000 people 
#74   Latvia: 0.0541485 per 1,000 people 
#75   Honduras: 0.0531529 per 1,000 people 
#76   Burundi: 0.0525978 per 1,000 people 
#77   Angola: 0.0479412 per 1,000 people 
#78   Burkina Faso: 0.0476579 per 1,000 people 
#79   Sri Lanka: 0.0448044 per 1,000 people 
#80   Ghana: 0.0447918 per 1,000 people 
#81   Namibia: 0.0398818 per 1,000 people 
#82   Albania: 0.0373281 per 1,000 people 
#83   Malawi: 0.0368301 per 1,000 people 
#84   Zimbabwe: 0.0342899 per 1,000 people 
#85   Iceland: 0.0336999 per 1,000 people 
#86   Belarus: 0.0325243 per 1,000 people 
#87   Senegal: 0.031864 per 1,000 people 
#88   Taiwan: 0.0317987 per 1,000 people 
#89   Botswana: 0.0304878 per 1,000 people 
#90   Nigeria: 0.0295109 per 1,000 people 
#91   Singapore: 0.0293719 per 1,000 people 
#92   Mozambique: 0.0273097 per 1,000 people 
#93   Swaziland: 0.0272408 per 1,000 people 
#94   Cuba: 0.0261743 per 1,000 people 
#95   South Africa: 0.0246031 per 1,000 people 
#96   Chad: 0.0231956 per 1,000 people 
#97   India: 0.0176253 per 1,000 people 
#98   Denmark: 0.0163844 per 1,000 people 
#99   Sweden: 0.0161075 per 1,000 people 
#100   Gambia, The: 0.015674 per 1,000 people 
#101   Cyprus: 0.015382 per 1,000 people 
#102   Syria: 0.0145807 per 1,000 people 
#103   Norway: 0.014152 per 1,000 people 
#104   Sierra Leone: 0.0141469 per 1,000 people 
#105   Liberia: 0.0137931 per 1,000 people 
#106   Japan: 0.0125964 per 1,000 people 
#107   Djibouti: 0.0125865 per 1,000 people 
#108   Indonesia: 0.0119062 per 1,000 people 
#109   Mali: 0.0117389 per 1,000 people 
#110   Burma: 0.0105539 per 1,000 people 
#111   Guinea: 0.0101555 per 1,000 people 
#112   Thailand: 0.00995544 per 1,000 people 
#113   Malaysia: 0.00972738 per 1,000 people 
#114   Estonia: 0.00900225 per 1,000 people 
#115   Greece: 0.00853018 per 1,000 people 
#116   Sudan: 0.00851022 per 1,000 people 
#117   Iraq: 0.00728667 per 1,000 people 
#118   Bulgaria: 0.00630872 per 1,000 people 
#119   Ethiopia: 0.00625573 per 1,000 people 
#120   Comoros: 0.00595906 per 1,000 people 
#121   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 0.00586797 per 1,000 people 
#122   Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 0.00426239 per 1,000 people 
#123   Moldova: 0.0040404 per 1,000 people 
#124   Libya: 0.00381547 per 1,000 people 
#125   Finland: 0.00363776 per 1,000 people 
#126   Mauritania: 0.00356333 per 1,000 people 
#127   China: 0.00349303 per 1,000 people 
#128   Kuwait: 0.00342466 per 1,000 people 
#129   Niger: 0.00337088 per 1,000 people 
#130   Mongolia: 0.00322465 per 1,000 people 
#131   Algeria: 0.00313537 per 1,000 people 
#132   Tunisia: 0.00277916 per 1,000 people 
#133   Cambodia: 0.0024934 per 1,000 people 
#134   Laos: 0.00209104 per 1,000 people 
#135   Morocco: 0.00198619 per 1,000 people 
#136   Yemen: 0.00192985 per 1,000 people 
#137   Nepal: 0.00184269 per 1,000 people 
#138   Bangladesh: 0.00172533 per 1,000 people 
#139   Russia: 0.00172221 per 1,000 people 
#140   Pakistan: 0.00162542 per 1,000 people 
#141   Kazakhstan: 0.00111945 per 1,000 people 
#142   Kyrgyzstan: 0.000777303 per 1,000 people 
#143   Turkmenistan: 0.000605816 per 1,000 people 
#144   Tajikistan: 0.000558347 per 1,000 people 
#145   Uzbekistan: 0.000335183 per 1,000 people 
#146   Azerbaijan: 0.000252781 per 1,000 people 
#147   Somalia: 0.000232775 per 1,000 people 
#148   Afghanistan: 0 per 1,000 people 
Weighted average: 0.1 per 1,000 people  


DEFINITION: Total number of Priests Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.

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