Can you name the Highest percent Roman Catholic Countries? by seanob

Rank	Country	%
16		86.67
17		86.61
18		86.29
19		86.03
20		85.38
21		85.37
22		84.76
23		83.38
24		81.63
25		81.27
26		81.03
27		80.01
28		79.45
29		78.95
30		76.59
1a.	76.59
31	76.59
35	76.59
53	76.59
58	76.59
70	76.59
91	76.59
113	76.59
125	76.59
130	76.59

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Highest percent Roman Catholic Countries Quiz

by seanob

Created Oct 6, 2009 in Religion
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	magister:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 22:21 GMT		24 points
	Point #1: God bless the Jesuits. Point #2: I could be wrong on this one, and I'm just going out on a limb, but I'm pretty sure there's more than 76.59% Catholics in Vatican City.

	seanob:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 23:16 GMT		10 points
	*Not listed in the source I found, but according to Wikipedia Vatican city's entire population of around 900 is Roman Catholic (though that fact is uncited).

	steeltown:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:00 GMT		6 points
	Count me #3 in observing the high percentage of RC's in the Vatican---unless, maybe it's a conspiracy! Call Dan Brown!!!

	JoDB:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 15:13 GMT		10 points
	I've been waiting for this quiz for quite a while. Thanks for posting it!

	paulvc:	Oct 10th, 2009 at 01:12 GMT		10 points
	So El Salvador doesn't make the list? Interesting.

	Pyrophorus:	Oct 10th, 2009 at 01:33 GMT		20 points
	No San Marino? Or was it too small to be listed? Wikipedia claims 99% Roman Catholic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Marino#Religions).

	cls121389:	Oct 10th, 2009 at 03:57 GMT		7 points
	Need to find a more accurate source. Otherwise a great quiz idea.

	Delphi:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 11:18 GMT		11 points
	Good quiz, but I agree you need another source - I can't believe San Marino shouldn't be on this list.

	Polymer:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 14:49 GMT		2 points
	I'm not sure there's going to be better data; this data is FROM the church! Think about how small the Vatican and San Marino are. I can believe they'd only be about 75% because if one group of persons who, say are employed by the Vatican or a single migrant group happened to be in San Marino it could sway the statistics easily. It may also be that secular Catholics, who identify as Catholic but do not attend church and have not received Confirmation are not counted by the church. That could explain the difference between Wikipedia data and this data.

	Polymer:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 14:50 GMT		3 points
	oooo look at the bonus if you enter in Vatican: it's been lumped with Italy in these demographics

	LinuxLinus:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 02:08 GMT		-2 points
	I'd like to see Austria (roughly 74%) as a bonus.

	LinuxLinus:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 02:09 GMT		1 point
	@Polymer: I'm pretty sure that fewer than 96% of Italians attend church.

	Masternachos:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 17:14 GMT		1 point
	I gotta get me to Italy!

	roditg:	Nov 30th, 2009 at 07:22 GMT		0 points
	I think I'll believe the CIA over your source. You might want to check these percentages again. I know for a fact that Argentina's is over 90%. It also should be noted that the quiz just says Roman Catholic not practicing Roman Catholics. There is a huge difference there.

	gurl94:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 04:45 GMT		4 points
	As a New Yorker (Long Island), I find it funny that USA is so low on this list because I feel like I only know Roman Catholics. (but yes I am aware that I am only in one tiny part of the whole country.)

	waterjoe:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 14:10 GMT		4 points
	Andorra (Wiki cites CIA Factbook as saying 90%)

	Hermes76:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 03:08 GMT		1 point
	I was really surprised about Seychelles. I got 25/30 and realised that Malta really is barbeque catholic. I am Catholic to for the record

	moviegoer73:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 21:20 GMT		5 points
	gurl94...you live on Long Island and you don't know any jews?

	lalalala:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 07:50 GMT		-1 points
	@moviegoer - I'm going to say that she means that everyone is either Catholic or Jewish...there are very few Christians of other denominations.

	johnlk:	Jun 9th, 2010 at 16:48 GMT		1 point
	The Church counts people who were baptized and haven't professed another religion, I think.

	Raynard:	Jul 5th, 2010 at 12:55 GMT		0 points
	There have been quizzes with countries with highest Jewish/Buddhist percentages finally they have highest Roman Catholic.

	lalalala:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 01:56 GMT		1 point
	not sure why I got voted down. I live on Long Island. It's totally true.

	sleepless:	Aug 1st, 2010 at 22:22 GMT		1 point
	San Marino should be on this list with 97% catholics according to wikipedia. In your source San Marino and Vatican are both part of Italy!

	D_Mac:	Nov 24th, 2010 at 13:37 GMT		2 points
	Andorra too is over 90% catholic, yet not on this list.

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	marsco:	Dec 16th, 2010 at 15:14 GMT		1 point
	I wonder how they got the percentage for Luxembourg, as inquiries on religious affiliations are illegal there.

	Zephos:	Dec 20th, 2010 at 17:22 GMT		1 point
	No "Ireland" actually Catholicism has nothing to do with economic success.

	professor88:	Feb 2nd, 2011 at 12:49 GMT		1 point
	Very informative bonus answers, thanks for that! ;-)

	PrinceAvalon:	Feb 12th, 2011 at 11:08 GMT		1 point
	This quiz needs a bigger time allowance.

	balakalak:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 17:15 GMT		1 point
	yes ireland, the lack of irish economic success has more to do with the general ineptitude at planning, the 'sure tis grand' attitude, the politics by brown envelope and the lack of social conscience displayed by the Irish political aristocracy. Mind you the 'sure tis grand' attitude is one of the reasons that Ireland is a nice place. Im Irish by the way!

	zeppelinoid:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 12:43 GMT		3 points
	I am surprised that no one else has commented on the figures relating to Ireland. The source includes the whole island not just the country. If you exclude Northern Ireland then the proportion of Roman Catholics increases to 86.8%. Interestingly on partition in 1922 the figure was 89% and five year later this had increased to 98%. (Ethnic cleansing?) There has been a slow decline ever since.

	british:	Sep 17th, 2011 at 20:37 GMT		-2 points
	This is why I dislike statistics. They only test about a group of 100 people and if they get 80 catholics, they assume the country is 80% catholic, when numbers could be much drastically different. Plus other tests based on the opposite or same subject, could be drastically different. For example just the other day I saw a statistic that said about 40% of French are agnostic/atheist, and here this states that almost 75% are catholic..