Most of the figures are taken from the CIA Factbook.[1] According to the CIA Factbook, the five countries with the largest number of Catholics are: Brazil Mexico Philippines United States Italy The country where the membership of the church is the largest percentage of the population is Vatican City, at 100%. According to the Census of the 2013 Annuario Pontificio (Pontifical Yearbook), the number of Catholics in the world was about 1.21 billion at the end of 2011. The CIA Factbook data might not necessarily be accurate. According to a 2013 research conducted by a Brazilian institute (Datafolha) the percentage of the population in Brazil of Catholic religion is just 57%,[2] well in contrast to the 64.63% published by CIA. Also, the 2010 Mexican Census showed this percentage to be 83.9% [3] - against a 91.89% number in the CIA Factbook. (from Wikipedia.org) Catholic pop % Catholic 1. Brazil 145,446,000 78.95% 2. Mexico 123,393,000 86.67% They must of Included the 25 Million Mexican-American Catholics. 3. Philipines 69,630,000 81.03% 4. USA 64,621,000 22.63% 5. Italy 57,665,000 96.55% 6 France 44,499,000 75.54% 7. Colombia 38,406,000 86.29% 8. Spain 37,165,000 87.79% 9. Poland 35,010,000 94.34% 10.Argentina 34,480,000 89.25% (from: s1.zetaboards/anthroscape/topic/4921674/1/) Pang-Top 3 pala ang Pilipinas sa may pinakamaraming katoliko sa Mundo...... nakakaproud..... Religion in the Philippines (2000)[1] Roman Catholic (80.9%) Islam (5%) other Christian (4.5%) Evangelical (2.8%) Iglesia ni Cristo (2.3%) Aglipayan (2.0%) Other (1.8%) None (Atheist) (0.7%) (from: wikipedia.org)
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