For more information about CARA research and statistics, including our national and parish surveys, demographic studies, trend analyses and projections, and focus groups visit CARA Services. Parishes where a bishop has entrusted the pastoral care of the parish to a deacon or some other person.
Former Catholic adults: Those raised Catholic who no longer self-identify as Catholic survey-based estimate. Catholics who attend Mass at least once a month including weekly and more frequent attenders; survey-based estimate. Allegations made since i. Allegations reported in or earlier i. According to data from the Statistical Yearbook, the number of permanent bishops and deacons is growing, but priests, seminarians and religious are decreasing. In Asia, Catholics go from Vatican City AsiaNews - Catholics are increasing worldwide, reaching 1, million, the number of permanent bishops and deacons is growing, but priests, seminarians and religious are decreasing.
Between and , there was an increase of about 6 percent of Catholics worldwide, which went from almost 1, to 1, million, for an increase of 75 million people. As of , Catholics are just under 18 percent of the world's population. The number of Catholics in Asia grew slightly from In the same period, the bishops increased by more than 3. From the beginning of , then, 4 new diocese, an eparchy, 2 territorial prelatures, an apostolic exarchate and an apostolic administration were erected.
On the other hand, the number of priests fell, decreasing by 0. Between and they increased by 1, units, but they decreased between and In contrast, vocations in Africa and Asia grew, respectively by In America the number of priests is stationary, there are about thousand of them, in Europe and Oceania the drops are respectively over 7 percent and just over 1 percent.
The distribution of priests across the continents is characterized in by a strong prevalence of European priests Across the five years, there has been a growth in the number of Asian clergy from The situation is identical for the American clergy The number of seminarians is also in decline: from , units in to , in , with a decrease of -2 percent. The number of permanent deacons reported — 48, — was up 1. The number of brothers in religious orders continued its small yet steady decline worldwide from 50, in to 50, in The number of women in religious orders showed an ongoing downward trend with a 1.
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The number of Catholics and of permanent deacons in the world has risen, while the number of religious men and women decreased, according to Vatican statistics.
The growth was spread across all inhabited continents, with an increase of 94, in Europe, 9. Fides noted that this was the third successive year that the number of Catholics in Europe had risen. But the percentage of Catholics in the world population remained unchanged at Fides, the information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since , presents the statistics annually ahead of World Mission Sunday, which takes place this Sunday, Oct.
The figures indicated that the number of priests worldwide fell in to ,, with Europe registering the largest decrease, followed by the Americas. Africa, Asia, and Oceania all reported higher numbers of priests.
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