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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.