Spiritual

Diocese and country indicators from annual Catholic statistical datasets.

Data yearRefreshed 9/22/2026

Dioceses

2,636 ranked · 515 excluded^*Excluded dioceses do not report Baptisms per 1k Catholics in any recent annual edition, so there is no usable value to rank. Dioceses missing only the newest edition are ranked by their most recent reported year.

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LichingaMozambique · 2024

59.4 / 1k+0.2%

LafiaNigeria · 2024

58.9 / 1k+24.1%

Wrocław-Koszalin (Ukrainian)Poland · 2023

58.6 / 1k+312.1%

GaouaBurkina Faso · 2022

57.3 / 1k+12.1%

IsangiDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 2023

57 / 1k+107%

UviraDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 2024

54.5 / 1k+5.6%

Mohale's HoekLesotho · 2024

52.3 / 1k-0.4%

KakamegaKenya · 2024

52.2 / 1kno prior

SolweziZambia · 2024

50.9 / 1k+13.3%

RabaulPapua New Guinea · 2024

50.9 / 1kno prior

OdiennéCôte d'Ivoire · 2021

50.8 / 1kno prior

PalaChad · 2024

50 / 1k-3.3%

Samoa-ApiaPacific (Oceania) · 2024

49.5 / 1k-6.4%

BomadiNigeria · 2024

49.4 / 1k+28.3%

TororoUganda · 2024

48.7 / 1k+46%

KoumraChad · 2024

48.7 / 1k+37.9%

SokotoNigeria · 2024

48.3 / 1k+17.3%

Tarawa and NauruPacific (Oceania) · 2024

47.8 / 1kno change

KatsinaNigeria · 2024

47.5 / 1kno prior

El ObeidSudan · 2024

47.3 / 1kno prior

KoupélaBurkina Faso · 2024

47 / 1k+28.4%

WeetebulaIndonesia · 2024

46.3 / 1kno prior

BauchiNigeria · 2024

46.1 / 1k-5.4%

Simla and ChandigarhIndia · 2024

45.4 / 1k-0.4%

DobaChad · 2024

45.3 / 1k+30.1%

GuruéMozambique · 2024

45.1 / 1k+79.6%

KumbaCameroon · 2024

44.8 / 1k+20.7%

MorondavaMadagascar · 2024

44.7 / 1k+22.7%

SunyaniGhana · 2024

44.7 / 1k+33.4%

MatadiDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 2024

44 / 1k+0.8%

KisiiKenya · 2024

44 / 1k+35%

RuyigiBurundi · 2024

43.8 / 1k-4.3%

MorogoroTanzania · 2024

43.7 / 1k+62.8%

NelloreIndia · 2024

43.5 / 1k-0%

GarouaCameroon · 2024

43.2 / 1k+0%

KatiolaCôte d'Ivoire · 2024

43.1 / 1k-1.8%

KotidoUganda · 2024

43.1 / 1k-17.9%

MalindiKenya · 2024

43.1 / 1kno prior

MaiduguriNigeria · 2024

42.8 / 1k+15%

YagouaCameroon · 2024

42.3 / 1k+3.4%

ShendamNigeria · 2024

41.7 / 1k+1.9%

DjougouBenin · 2024

41.3 / 1k-2.7%

MyitkyinaMyanmar · 2024

41.3 / 1k+0.1%

KontagoraNigeria · 2022

40.9 / 1k-26.3%

ByumbaRwanda · 2024

40.8 / 1k+6.8%

TaboraTanzania · 2024

40.4 / 1k+138.3%

MbuluTanzania · 2024

40 / 1k-8.2%

TôlagnaroMadagascar · 2024

40 / 1k+10.4%

HazaribagIndia · 2024

39.7 / 1k-1.1%

ManonoDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 2024

39.6 / 1k+128.1%

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Countries

224 ranked · 5 excluded^*Excluded countries do not have a usable value for Baptisms per 1k Catholics in the selected data year — for example, the Holy See publishes no statistics for China or North Korea.

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Tonga

+89.3%56.2 / 1k

Kiribati

-1.5%47.1 / 1k

Nauru

no change46.7 / 1k

Samoa

-7.3%37.4 / 1k

Turkmenistan

+162.5%35 / 1k

Cambodia

-8.9%33.9 / 1k

Faeroe Islands

+225%32.5 / 1k

Burundi

-2.3%30.1 / 1k

Tajikistan

+50%30 / 1k

Burkina Faso

-1.4%28.4 / 1k

Chad

+27.5%26.9 / 1k

Fiji

no change26.4 / 1k

Solomon Islands

-0.9%26.4 / 1k

Greenland

+66.7%25 / 1k

Myanmar

-0.4%24.6 / 1k

Ethiopia

+7.6%23.4 / 1k

Laos

-6.8%21.8 / 1k

Vietnam

-2.5%21.6 / 1k

Timor-Leste

-10.7%21.4 / 1k

São Tomé and Príncipe

-1.7%20.8 / 1k

Madagascar

+7.7%20.7 / 1k

Uganda

+0.3%19.8 / 1k

Rwanda

+11.4%19.4 / 1k

Lesotho

-3.6%18.5 / 1k

Tanzania

-6.5%18.4 / 1k

Nepal

no change18.3 / 1k

Cook Islands

-32.1%18 / 1k

Kenya

-11.1%17.8 / 1k

Namibia

-13.6%17.8 / 1k

Wallis and Futuna Islands

+21.4%17.5 / 1k

Eritrea

-1.2%17.3 / 1k

Indonesia

-2.7%17.1 / 1k

Malaysia

+2.6%16.2 / 1k

Vanuatu

+14.2%16.1 / 1k

Pakistan

+6.9%15.7 / 1k

Finland

-2.9%15.6 / 1k

Gambia

+16.1%15.3 / 1k

Ghana

+9.8%15.2 / 1k

Guyana

-0.3%14.7 / 1k

Nigeria

+2.9%14.5 / 1k

Singapore

-11.1%14.2 / 1k

Cameroon

-4.7%14.1 / 1k

Mozambique

-3.3%14 / 1k

Central African Republic

+3.7%13.8 / 1k

Guinea

-0.7%13.8 / 1k

Papua New Guinea

+5.2%13.7 / 1k

Benin

+1.9%13.7 / 1k

Bangladesh

-5.2%13.6 / 1k

Seychelles

-11.4%13.5 / 1k

Thailand

+2.7%13.4 / 1k

Showing 50 of 224 ranked countries.