World-wide population figures for Catholics only go back as far as 1970 on the web. CARA reports that in 1970 the world-wide Catholic population was 653.6 million in 1970. The most current figure (as of 2013) was 1,196 billion.
In 2007, 17% of the world's population was Catholic.
According to catholic-hierchy.org, there are 1,152,884,000 in the world.
The second largest Catholic population in the world is in Brazil. Approximately 123 million people in Brazil identify as Catholic, making it the country with the second-largest Catholic population after the Philippines.
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There are about 1.2 billion Catholics in the World.
Roman Catholic AnswerAccording to Wikipedia, which is the CIA Factbook and the Vatican's Annuario Pontificio the world Catholic population at the end of 2009 was 1,181,368,943 which, at that time, worked out to 17.18% of the world's population.
By percentage, Vatican City is the biggest catholic country in the world (which is ironic since it is the smallest country in the world). 100% of its citizens are Catholic. By population, Brazil is the largest, with about 123 million Catholics.
According to the website Population Reference Bureau, the 2012 world population was 7,057,075,000. According to the 2014 Pontifical Yearbook the Catholic population at the end of 2012 was 1.228 billion which would make the total non-Catholic population 82.6%.
It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. . Brazil has the largest number of Catholics in the world 145.4 million (79% of population), Vatican City, followed by Saint Pierre and Miquelon all with 100% of their population, which is small, as Catholic.
Yes, 2.2 Billion in 1939, in 1945 it reached 2.3 billion. ( http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/history/world-population-growth.htm ) The world population has been growing continuously since the end of the Black Death around 1400.
False. It is about 1 half of the world is Catholic No, not even close. How many Catholics are there in China and India? Those two countries make up over a third of the world population. World - 6,602,224,175 China - 1,339,080,000 India - 1,065, 070,609 Africa - 1,000,000,000 These are non-Catholic areas but 1/2 of the World population. That would mean everyone else would have to be Catholic. The Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church denomination with over 1 billion members, less than 1/6 of the World population
The Roman Catholic Church is the world's largest religion, with over a billion members. It includes about one-sixth of the world's population.