Useful Catholic Church statistics

Each year the Fides news agency publishes a list of statistics about the Catholic Church. On education, the Catholic Church runs 68,119 kindergartens with 6,522,320 pupils; 92,971 primary schools with 30,973 114 pupils; 42,495 secondary schools with 17,114,737 pupils. The Church also cares for 2,288,258 secondary school pupils and 3,275,440 university students. Health care institutes run in the world by the Church include: 5,558 hospitals most of them in America (1721) andAfrica (1290); 17,763 dispensaries, mainly in America (5495), Africa (5280) and Asia (3634), 561 care homes for people with Leprosy mainly in Asia (288) and Africa (174); 16,073 Homes for the elderly, or chronically ill or people with a disability, mainly in Europe (8238) and America (4144).