The number of Catholics around the world has tipped over the 1.4 billion mark, according to the latest research from the Vatican.
The Vatican’s Central Office of Church Statistics has released the 2025 Pontifical Yearbook providing details about the number of Catholics, consecrated religious, priests, bishops and the like throughout the world.
The global Catholic population increased by 1.15 per cent between 2022 and 2023, rising from approximately 1.39 billion to 1.406 billion, according to the Pontifical Yearbook 2025, which was compiled by the Central Office of Church Statistics, a department of the Vatican's Secretariat of State.
