Title: Vatican City - Population Fun
Headings: Vatican City
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Content: Population of Vatican
According to a July 2017 estimate provided by the CIA World Factbook, Vatican City has a population of 839 inhabitants. This makes it one the world’s least populated states, third to only the United Kingdom’s Pitcairn Islands (population 66) and Australia’s Cocos Islands (population 596). Despite it’s small population, Vatican City ranks 6th among the world’s sovereign states and dependent territories by population density, with 4,935 people per square mile. Almost all of Vatican City’s 2018 citizens either live inside the state’s walls or serve in the Holy See’s diplomatic service in embassies around the world. Ethnicity in Vatican
The majority of Vatican City’s 2018 population, also known as the clergy, is of Italian ethnicity (Vatican citizenship), while the Swiss Guard (composed of Swiss citizens exclusively) accounts for about 18 percent of the people living within its walled territory. According to Wikipedia, “most of the 2,400 lay workers who comprise the majority of the Vatican workforce reside outside the Vatican and are citizens of Italy, while a few are citizens of other nations.” Religion in Vatican
Since most of its 2019 population consists of clergy people, that work in the service of the Holy See, and the Swiss Guard, that are required to be Catholic, all of Vatican’s actual citizens are followers of the Roman Catholic Church (the Catholic Church of Rome). Language in Vatican
While it has established no official language by law, the state of Vatican City promulgates its laws and regulations by publishing them in the Italian language. On the other hand, the Holy See uses Latin for its most important official documents. However, many other languages are used within the city walls, as recruits to the Pontifical Swiss Guard take their oath in the language of the Swiss canton to which they belong, such as German, French or Italian.