Brazil is the largest Catholic country in the world, with an estimated Catholic population of 140 million, ahead of Mexico and the Philippines, with 101 million and 85 million Catholics, respectively. Nevertheless, Brazil's Catholic population is shrinking. By 2050, today's largest Catholic country could have a majority Protestant population.

The Peter's Pence collects offerings to the Pope made by Catholics worldwide. Money is then redistributed to promote the Church's mission, such as evangelization, help to those in need, and support of social projects. In 2023, almost a third of all donations came from the U.S., where American believers offered **** million euros to the Pope.

In 2024, Ethiopia had the largest Christian population in Africa, with around 77.5 million people who identified as Christian. The second highest Christian population was in Nigeria, with 74.4 million people. Christianity has a significant presence in Africa, with its history on the continent dating back to the fourth century in Ethiopia. Furthermore, Christianity has spread throughout Africa with different denominations and traditions, taking root in various regions. Some of the largest Christian denominations in Africa include the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, and the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.

Philippines Population: RA: Philippine Independent Catholic Church data was reported at 66,959.000 Person in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 154,686.000 Person for 2010. Philippines Population: RA: Philippine Independent Catholic Church data is updated yearly, averaging 110,822.500 Person from Dec 2010 (Median) to 2015, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 154,686.000 Person in 2010 and a record low of 66,959.000 Person in 2015. Philippines Population: RA: Philippine Independent Catholic Church data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Philippine Statistics Authority. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Philippines – Table PH.G003: Population: Religious: Affiliation.

Except for Uruguay, over ** percent of the population in all the selected Latin American countries defined themselves as Catholics in 2000. However, by 2023, that was the case in only three countries: Mexico, Peru and Colombia. Over this 20-year period, Panama experienced the largest decrease in the share of Catholic believers, plummeting from **** to **** percent.

This Gallup poll seeks to collect the opinions of Canadians on several issues of importance to the country as a whole. Included in this survey are discussions on religion, and several questions on foreign trade, including opinion and awareness questions. The specific countries discussed with respect to foreign trade and goods were Germany, Japan, France and Italy. Respondents were also asked questions so that they could be grouped according to geographic, demographic, and social variables. Topics of interest include: American investment in Canada; Canada supporting distressed countries; Canadian businesses; car ownership; Catholic principles which are hard to accept; church attendance; diseases which are most often thought about; diseases which kill the most people; federal elections; buying German goods; the government's overall performance; income tax levels; buying Italian goods; buying Japanese goods; purchasing and opinions of foreign goods; recognition of China's communist government; preferred political parties; Protestant principles which are hard to accept; provincial elections; union membership; voting behaviour; whether women are better looking now than in the past; and whether women should be able to work in the Ministry. Basic demographics variables are also included.

• Scale of importance that you give in your life to different aspects of it: health, family, friends, politics, religion, economic well-being and work.
• Ideals you would risk your life for: country, another person, democracy,...
• Influence that a number of facts have on your important decisions: people's opinions, friends, religious beliefs and political convictions. Belief in God, in life after death, in heaven, in hell, in the soul, in sin or in reincarnation.
• Center where he practices his religion. Religious practice at home or association. A different place of religious practice. Frequency of attendance at the place of religious practice and assessment of the importance of a number of reasons for attending the place of religious practice: place where I can develop the faith, place of meeting with compatriots,...
• Current frequency of prayer and personal meditation.
• Preferred cohabitation situation: religious, civil marriage,... Qualities that parents should instill in their children.
• Frequency with which religion is spoken at home.
• Preference on the attendance of children in religion class in the event that they had them. Reasons.
• Type of centre I would prefer a child to attend. Reasons for choosing a religious center.
• Importance of different reasons why a child is preferred to attend a religious center.
• The phrase with which he agrees most about the teaching of religion in school: religious beliefs are necessary, it is important for education,...
• Agreement with phrases on the current importance of religion. Degree of importance that religion has in the education of children.
• I agree with various statements on the financing of schools.
• State-Church competences in the selection of religion teachers.
• Foreigners' opinion that there are teachers of their religion in schools, current number of teachers and competences in the selection of teachers of their religion.
• Opinion on the veracity of religion.
• Right to exercise other religious practices.
• Religious groups you would not like to have as neighbors: Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists,...
• Acceptance of the use of religious symbols or characters for humorous purposes in the media.
• Acceptance of a series of phrases about homosexuals, contraceptives and divorce.
• Agreement with euthanasia, suicide, abortion and artificial fertilization.
• Trust in institutions: parliament, catholic church, army,...
• Preference of treatment of the subject of religions by the Constitution.
• Financing of religions.
• Influence of the Catholic Church in Spain.
• Positioning against different positions of the Catholic Church: divorce, abortion, euthanasia, adoption by homosexual couples,...
• Rating of different international characters: Benedict XVI, John Paul II, Einstein, Bin Laden, Bush, Mohammed, Marx and Jesus Christ.
• Respect of Spanish society for religions in different areas: school, work,...
• Opinion on the attendance of Muslim girls with veils.
• Agreement with phrases on the influence of religious authorities on political life.
• Agreement with different phrases about the meaning of life and influence of people to change it: God cares about every human being, people cannot change the course of their lives,...
• Nationality of the interviewee and country of origin. Time of residence in Spain (year of arrival)
• Religious practice of foreigners in their country of origin and in Spain.
• Closeness to political parties.
• Ideological self-location scale (1-10).
• Civil status of the interviewee.
• Type of marriage.

TO THE CENTER RESPONSIBLE: - Role of the interviewee in the religious center. - Activities that take place in the religious center. Existence of a religious authority in the center and how to designate it. Not from members of the religious center. Percentage by gender and of partners with active participation in the religious centre. - Religious confession of non-evangelical and non-Muslim centers.

In 2023, 27.5 percent of Americans were unaffiliated with any religion. A further 13.4 percent of Americans were White evangelical Protestants, and an additional 13.3 percent were White mainline Protestants. Religious trends in the United States Although the United States is still home to the largest number of Christians worldwide, the nation has started to reflect a more diverse religious landscape in recent years. Americans now report a wide range of religious beliefs and backgrounds, in addition to an increasing number of people who are choosing to identify with no religion at all. Studies suggest that many Americans have left their previous religion to instead identify as atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular, with many reasoning that they stopped believing in the religion's teachings, that they didn't approve of negative teachings or treatment of LGBTQ+ people, or that their family was never that religious growing up. Christian controversies Over the last few years, controversies linked to Christian denominations have plagued the nation, including reports of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the Southern Baptist Convention. Christian churches have also been accused of supporting discriminatory actions against LGBTQ+ people and people belonging to other religious groups. In addition, there have been increasing concerns about Christian nationalism, the political ideology that asserts that America was founded to be a Christian nation. Although the majority of Americans still think that declaring the United States a Christian nation would go against the U.S. Constitution, studies found that most Republicans would be in favor of this change.

On April 21st, 2025, Pope Francis died after twelve years as the leader of the Catholic Church. Starting from May 7th, 2025, *** cardinals will meet for electing Francis' successor in the Papal Conclave. Only cardinals aged below ** are eligible to vote. Traditionally, Italy is the most represented country, with ** cardinal electors in 2025, ahead of the US, with ***, and Brazil, with *****. While these countries host large Catholic communities, states where Catholics are a small minority will be represented in the Conclave too, such as Iran, Mongolia, and Sweden. Conversely, some countries of historic Catholic culture and tradition, such as Ireland and Austria, will not be represented in the Conclave.

Based on the 2020 census, the majority of Filipino households were affiliated with the Roman Catholic religion, numbering about 86 million people. Meanwhile, there were roughly seven million Muslims in the country. The Philippines is one of the countries in the world with the highest population professing the Catholic faith, after Brazil and Mexico.

Singapore Population: Religion: Christianity: Catholic data was reported at 220.900 Person th in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 219.133 Person th for 2010. Singapore Population: Religion: Christianity: Catholic data is updated yearly, averaging 219.133 Person th from Jun 2000 (Median) to 2015, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 220.900 Person th in 2015 and a record low of 118.980 Person th in 2000. Singapore Population: Religion: Christianity: Catholic data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Department of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Singapore – Table SG.G002: Population by Religion .

As of 2015, around ** million female and male population among households in the Philippines were affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. The Philippines is one of the countries in the world with the highest population professing the Catholic faith, after Brazil and Mexico.

Data derived from weekly public opinion polls in the Netherlands in 1965 concerning social and political issues. Samples were drawn from the Dutch population aged 21 years and older.All data from the surveys held between 1962 and 2000 are available in the DANS data collections.Background variables:Sex / age / religion / income / vote recall latest elections / party preference / level of education / union membership / professional status / < self > left-right rating / party alignment / province / degree of urbanization / weight factor.Topical variables:n6502: Availability of family planning information.n6504: Main government tasks in 1965 concerning housing shortage, stabilization of prices, higher wages, recreation etc. / Respondent's housing problems, and housing problems in general.n6508: Knowledge of names of ministers in cabinet.n6509: Media debates in Parliament / Cabinet crisis about media / Participation of Socialist Party < PvdA > in new government / Vote at last elections and when there were elections now.n6510: Engagement Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven.n6512: Formation of the new cabinet / preferred coalition.n6513: Re-introduction of daylight saving time.n6514: Late night shopping possibilities.n6514A: Satisfaction with government system in the Netherlands / Estimate of and opinions about salaries of members of parliament / Functioning of parliament / Possible political influence of respondent / Preference for cooperation Liberals and Socialists VVD-PvdA/ / Possible political influence of coalition Socialists and Liberals / Acquaintance with members of parliament / Possible influence of election generally / Attitude towards parliament.n6515: Familiarity with and confidence in new cabinet.n6515A: Satisfaction with government system in The Netherlands estimate of salaries of members of parliament / Functioning of members of parliament possible political influence of respondent / Preference for cooperation between Liberals and Socialists / Possible influence < personal/ of coalition Socialists-Liberals / Acquaintance with members of parliament possible influence of elections generally / Attitude towards parliament.n6517: Influence of religion / Probability of alliance of Catholics and Protestants in one church.n6518: Familiarity with and impression of government statement / Alliance protestant parties < ARP-CHU >.n6519: Main tasks of the present government / Alliance Protestant political parties < ARP and CHU >.n6521: Intentions of Roman Catholic church.n6525: Engagement Princess Beatrix and Claus von Amsberg.n6526: Preference for a monarchy or a republic / Engagement Princess Beatrix / Attitude towards the Germans.n6527: Politics of President De Gaulle and its effects for The Nether- lands / Membership United Kingdom of the Common Market.n6529: Whether respondent ever spoke in public, travelled by airplane, drank champagne, visited: a museum, football matches, concerts/ consulted a psychiatrist, wished to be of opposite sex.n6529A: Reception of TV. channel 2 / Watching TV programs / Pattern of watching TV by family / Choice of TV channel.n6530: Which country best friend of The Netherlands / Knowledge of and agreement with contribution Hfl. 100.000 for victims South African Apartheid.n6531: Agreement with government policy / Expectations of situation in Vietnam one year from now.n6532: Ideal family size / Size of children's allowances.n6533: Cause of riots on Saturday night in Amsterdam / Should police act or not.n6533A: Watching TV programs like news, topic < political > events, panel discussions, sports, musicals, shows, and English, American, French, German movies / Watching TV programs with sound turned off.n6535: Attitude Roman Catholic church now, and in future towards birth control < pill > / How much money is called wealth / Wealthiest person in The Netherlands.n6536: When and where spending holidays, in The Netherlands or abroad.n6539: Engagement Princess Beatrix / Law concerning permission for marriage of Princess Beatrix.n6540: Watching and enjoyment of boxing matches on TV.n6541: Familiarity with, listening to and judgment about Hilversum 3 < radio program >.n6542: Marriage of Princess Beatrix / Housing shortage / Personal experience with housing shortage / Respondent's present housing.n6543: Present buying intentions / Intention to buy electric articles.n6544: Expectations for well-being of respondents' family for 1966 / expectations for 1966 concerning prices, employment, strikes, taxes, international conflicts, power of the USA and the USSR.n6548: Preference political party / Sinterklaas gifts.n6551: Christmas celebration 1965 < tree, decorations, church attendance, presents >.

In 2023, **** percent of Americans were unaffiliated with any religion. A further **** percent of Americans were White evangelical Protestants, and an additional **** percent were White mainline Protestants. Religious trends in the United States Although the United States is still home to the largest number of Christians worldwide, the nation has started to reflect a more diverse religious landscape in recent years. Americans now report a wide range of religious beliefs and backgrounds, in addition to an increasing number of people who are choosing to identify with no religion at all. Studies suggest that many Americans have left their previous religion to instead identify as atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular, with many reasoning that they stopped believing in the religion's teachings, that they didn't approve of negative teachings or treatment of LGBTQ+ people, or that their family was never that religious growing up. Christian controversies Over the last few years, controversies linked to Christian denominations have plagued the nation, including reports of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the Southern Baptist Convention. Christian churches have also been accused of supporting discriminatory actions against LGBTQ+ people and people belonging to other religious groups. In addition, there have been increasing concerns about Christian nationalism, the political ideology that asserts that America was founded to be a Christian nation. Although the majority of Americans still think that declaring the United States a Christian nation would go against the U.S. Constitution, studies found that most Republicans would be in favor of this change.

Among the recognized 267 popes of the Catholic Church, the vast majority of them had *****************************. The last ******* pope was John Paul I, who died in 1978. ****** had ** popes, the second-largest number in history, with the last one being Gregory XI, who died in 1378. On April 21st, 2025, Francis, the first Argentinian pope, died after twelve years of pontificate. On May 9th, 2025, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the 267th pope of the Catholic Church with the name Leo XIV. He is the second pope from the American continent and the ********************************, as he was born in *****************, in 1955. He holds Peruvian citizenship, too.

Integrated Geodatabase: The Global Catholic Foortprint of Healthcare and WelfareBurhans, Molly A., Mrowczynski, Jon M., Schweigel, Tayler C., and Burhans, Debra T., Wacta, Christine. The Catholic Foortprint of Care Around the World (1). GoodLands and GHR Foundation, 2019.Catholic Statistics Numbers:Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae – Statistical Yearbook of the Church: 1980 – 2018. LIBRERIA EDITRICE VATICAN.Historical Country Boundary Geodatabase:Weidmann, Nils B., Doreen Kuse, and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. The Geography of the International System: The CShapes Dataset. International Interactions 36 (1). 2010.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03050620903554614GoodLands created a significant new data set for GHR and the UISG of important Church information regarding orphanages and sisters around the world as well as healthcare, welfare, and other child care institutions. The data were extracted from the gold standard of Church data, the Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, published yearly by the Vatican. It is inevitable that raw data sources will contain errors. GoodLands and its partners are not responsible for misinformation within Vatican documents. We encourage error reporting to us at data@good-lands.org or directly to the Vatican.GoodLands worked with the GHR Foundation to map Catholic Healthcare and Welfare around the world using data mined from the Annuarium Statisticum Eccleasiea. GHR supported the data development and GoodLands independently invested in the mapping of information.The workflows and data models developed for this project can be used to map any global, historical country-scale data in a time-series map while accounting for country boundary changes. GoodLands created proprietary software that enables mining the Annuarium Statisticum Eccleasiea (see Software and Program Library at our home page for details).The GHR Foundation supported data extraction and cleaning of this information.GoodLands’ supported the development of maps, infographics, and applications for all healthcare data.

Religious adherence varies widely between countries and regions across the globe. While in some countries, such as Bangladesh (majority-Muslim), Thailand (majority-Buddhist), and Nigeria (over 50 percent Muslim and 45 percent Christian), almost all people indicate that religion is important in their daily lives, in others such as Japan, Sweden, and Estonia, over three quarters of people do not believe that religion is important to them. Among countries with higher levels of religious adherence, there are some interesting cases. Predominantly Islamic countries, such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia, tend to show high levels of religious adherence. Italy, the historical center of the Catholic Church, records much higher levels of religiosity than other Western European countries, such as France, Germany, or the UK. The United States has almost double the number of people saying they believe religion is important in their daily life than not important. While religious adherence has declined over the past half century in the U.S., waves of immigration from predominantly Catholic countries, as well as the cultural impact of Evangelical Protestantism in some areas has meant that it is still one of the most religious Western countries. Israel, in spite of being an officially Jewish state, records roughly half of respondents being religious. Another notable trend is the tendency of some post-communist countries to show lower levels of religiosity, likely a result of the policy of state atheism under communism - Russia, Belarus, and Estonia all come towards the least religious end of the list for this reason, although Poland, or former-Soviet states in the Caucuses and Central Asia show much higher levels of religious adherence.

Historically, Portugal has been a country of Catholics. The 2021 census demonstrated that this trend has not been inverted, as over 80 percent of the population in Portugal identified as Catholic. Protestant or Evangelic believers accounted for more than two percent of the population, while Jehovah's Witnesses constituted one percent of residents. Among non-Christian faiths, Muslims were the most representative group, making up 0.42 percent of the population.

Religious but generally not practicing the faith

In the same year, Catholics numbered more than seven million people spread throughout the country, conquering the religious majority in the mainland and in the two autonomous regions. Citizens without religion totaled more than 1.2 million, which made of them the second most numerous religious group in Portugal. Young people presented the same religious trend, with young Catholics being the most representative group, followed by non-religious. Among youngsters, the attendance of religious events was mostly conducted occasionally, while a quarter did not participate in such proceedings at all.

The contribute of immigration to the growth of Evangelical Christianity

Despite being the minority, non-Catholic Christian and non-Christian faiths have been growing in Portugal. In 2011, Evangelical believers totaled 75.6 thousand, more than doubling ten years after. Such growth was partially motivated by the increase in Brazilian immigration, as more than 61 percent of new members of Evangelical churches in 2023 were of Brazilian origin. In fact, Brazil was the place of origin of almost 82 percent of all the immigrant Evangelical Christians residing in Portugal. However, more than a quarter of new Evangelical Christians were Portuguese, which shows that other religions, namely Christian Catholicism, have been losing members to Evangelical Catholicism.

This statistic presents the share of the Spanish population affiliated with a religious denomination in 2018, broken down by origin of the person. To that date, about ** percent of people born in Spain were affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, whereas only ** percent of those abroad were followers of this denomination. It is worth noting that Islam represented about ** percent of the population born abroad and almost ** percent had no affiliation.

This statistic presents the number of weddings celebrated by the Catholic Church in the autonomous community of the Basque Country in 2017, broken down by province. That year, the Basque province with the highest number of Catholic marriages was Biscay, where almost *********** services were officiated.