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Religious practice: statistics of the Catholic Church

The decline in the religious practice of Catholics is confirmed by the statistics provided by the church:

1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015 2019
Baptisms
- From 0 à 7 years 506 877 458 626 380 093 325 878 283 570 240 159 179 061
- After 7 years 6 624 13 504 20 961 23 197 19 371 22 155 25 243
- Total 513 501 472 130 401 054 349 075 302 941 262 314 204 304
- Percentage of baptisms among the births of the year 64,3% 61,9% 51,7% 45% - - -
Catechumens (converted adults preparing to be baptised) 2 800 5 000 9 474 9 564 - - 4251
Confirmations - 91 281 62 003 49 515 46 475 43 627 41 205
Weddings
Catholic weddings 217 479 147 146 122 580 97 432 74 636 - 44 951
Of which – two spouses are Catholic - 136 956 108 229 83 047 63 273 46 952 37 234
- one spouse is Catholic - 10 190 14 351 14 385 11 363 8 902 7717
Civil weddings - 287 000 305 500 271 600 251 700 236 300 218 468

The church gathers 10 326 parishes, belonging to 15 dioceses in metropolitan France and 9 overseas dioceses (2021).

Source : website of the Catholic church, general statistics and statistics concerning sacraments.

D 2 October 2023    AAnne Lancien AAnne-Laure Zwilling

CNRS Unistra Dres Gsrl

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