The number of Catholic faithful worldwide has increased. In terms of global Catholic faithful, the Syro-Malabar Church has surpassed the Ukrainian Church, securing the second position. Another Eastern church from India, the Syro-Malankara Church, is in eighth place in terms of the number of believers. The Syro-Malabar Church has a presence of believers on all continents.
The Syro-Malabar Church, which encourages large families, has contributed many priests and religious men and women to the Latin Church in the global Catholic Church and the Syro-Malankara Church in India.
According to the statistics in the *Pontifical Yearbook 2023*, the number of faithful in various churches is as follows:
- Latin: 1,00,05,11,567
- Syro-Malabar: 45,37,342
- Ukrainian: 42,95,581
- Maronite: 35,43,796
- Melkite: 15,45,990
- Armenian: 7,53,945
- Chaldean: 6,46,581
- Syro-Malankara: 4,87,247
- Romanian: 4,73,710
- Ruthenian: 3,65,883
- Eparchy of Mukachevo: 3,14,560
- Hungarian: 2,96,830
- Coptic: 2,53,100
- Slovak: 2,10,061
- Eritrean: 1,73,251
- Syrian: 1,20,679
- Ethiopian: 80,568
- Metropolis of Pittsburgh: 34,323
- Exarchate of Prague: 17,000
Church institutions without unified synods:
- Byzantine Catholic Church of Italy (Italo-Albanian): 55,909
- Byzantine Catholic Church: 44,30 (Note: This figure seems incomplete or unclear)
- Eparchy of Lungro: 32,500
- Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi: 23,400
- Križevci, Croatia (Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina Eparchy): 23,000
- Eparchy of Ruski Krstur, Serbia: 21,300
- Byzantine Catholic Church of Macedonia: 11,419
- Byzantine Catholic Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan: 10,400
- Eparchy of St. John XXIII of Sofia, Bulgaria: 10,000
- Byzantine Catholic Church of Greece: 6,017
- Apostolic Exarchate of Athens, Greece: 6,000
- Byzantine Catholic Apostolic Administration of Belarus: 5,000
- Byzantine Catholic Apostolic Administration of Southern Albania: 1,921
Other:
- Armenian Ordinariate of Eastern Europe: 6,18,000
- Eastern Ordinariate of Spain: 75,900
- Eastern Ordinariate of France: 25,300
- Eastern Ordinariate of Brazil: 10,540
- Byzantine Ordinariate of Austria: 10,080
- Eastern Ordinariate of Argentina: 2,020
- Eastern Ordinariate of Poland: 682