Almost 24 percent of the 301 million US Citizens are Catholics.
Approximately 53% of Catholics worldwide are women.
23.9% of the 307 120 000 Americans are Catholics. That amounts to 7 340 168 Americans being Catholic.
To the best of my knowledge there are no world-wide statistics on the nationality of Catholics, you would have to check with each individual Bishop's conference to see if they keep such statistics for their province.
There are about 509,000 people who are catholic in Japan. That is approximately 5 percent of Japan's total population, which is 10,180,000 people.
There are seven continents in the world: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
to escape a kingdom that did not allow them to worship freely
1492
the catholics came to America in the 1600's for religious freedom.they were also unhappy with their system of government in their homeland.
Catholics
There are 67,515,016 registered Catholics according to the 2008 Yearbook of Canadian and American Churches.
The colony of Maryland was founded on that land in America.
North and South America have almost half of the world's baptized Catholics. Brazil has over 100 million Catholics in their country alone.
Maryland
South America
Spanish Government decided to expand its land to North America because the wanted more catholics
If you count Christopher Columbus as the first European to arrive in the New World, that would be Catholics.
During colonial times most arrived on ships.