Annuario Pontificio - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:18:44 +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 Annuario Pontificio - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Number of Catholics worldwide rose by 16 million in 2020 https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/02/14/number-of-catholics-worldwide-rose-by-16-million-in-2020/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:53:27 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=143541 According to statistics released on Friday by the Vatican, the number of Catholics worldwide increased by an estimated 16 million in 2020 to 1.36 billion. The rise was in line with global population growth in the year that the coronavirus pandemic swept the planet, reported Vatican News, the online news portal of the Holy See. Read more

Number of Catholics worldwide rose by 16 million in 2020... Read more]]> According to statistics released on Friday by the Vatican, the number of Catholics worldwide increased by an estimated 16 million in 2020 to 1.36 billion.

The rise was in line with global population growth in the year that the coronavirus pandemic swept the planet, reported Vatican News, the online news portal of the Holy See. Catholics continued to account for 17.7% of the total world population.

The figures for 2020 — the most recent year where numbers are available — come from the 2022 edition of the Annuario Pontificio (Pontifical Yearbook) and the 2020 Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae (Statistical Yearbook of the Church), compiled by the Vatican's Central Office of Church Statistics.

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