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Area: 135,700,732 km²
Catholic Population: 1,375,839,500 Catholics (17.6% of 7,799,767,000 total)
Pastoral Centres: 225,406 parishes, 134,098 mission stations (3,241 with resident priest, 130,857 without resident priest), 98,012 other centres
Clergy: 5,340 bishops (2,671 diocesan, 2,669 titular), 407,872 priests (279,610 diocesan, 128,262 religious), 49,176 permanent deacons (48,575 diocesan, 601 religious)
Non-Clergy: 658,732 religious (49,774 brothers, 608,958 sisters), 20,281 members of secular institutes (593 brothers, 19,688 sisters), 109,895 major seminarians, 410,449 missionaries, 2,877,652 catechists
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