Friday, December 20, 2013

Interesting Catholic demographics

All information from Time's recent article on Pope Francis.

  • 33% of the world's population are Christian.  Half of them are Catholic.
  • 24% of the United States is Catholic. It's concentrated mostly in the Northeast.  Rhode Island, New Jersey and Massachusetts are the most Catholic states (59%, 43% and 41% Catholic respectively).
  • 58% of Latinos in the United States are Catholic.
  • Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, Spain and the Phillipines are the only countries which are more than 75% Catholic.



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