WelCom May 2021
The Vatican’s Statistical Yearbook shows that there has been a steady growth in the number of Catholics in every continent except for Europe. As at the end of 2019, the worldwide Catholic population exceeded 1.34 billion or about 17.7 per cent of the world’s population. This marked an increase of 16 million Catholics or 1.12 per cent increase compared with 2018 while the world’s population grew by 1.08 per cent.