Church Attendance in Mexico: Statistics 2024

Key findings at a glance

How often Mexicans attend Mass

Church attendance in Mexico is high by international standards, though most people attend less than every week. The Pew Research Center measures attendance across the whole population and among Catholics specifically, so the two figures answer slightly different questions.

Identity vs practice: still 4 in 5 Catholic

Religious identity in Mexico is far broader than weekly practice. Roughly four in five Mexicans still identify as Catholic on the census, even though only a minority attend every week. The INEGI census records self-declared affiliation, a different measure than the Pew attendance surveys.

Where Mexico sits in Latin America

The Pew Research Center studied religious and spiritual practices across Latin America, which places Mexico in a wider regional picture. Mexico remains strongly Catholic and its weekly attendance is high, while overall monthly attendance shows how central church life still is to the population.

How we compiled these statistics

Every number on this page is traceable to a primary source and dated to the year the data were collected. The attendance figures, about 37% attending at least weekly, 59% at least monthly, and 41% of Catholics attending weekly, come from the Pew Research Center 2024 study on religious and spiritual practices in Latin America. The identity and population figures, 77.7% Catholic identification in 2020 (down from 82.7% in 2010) and about 97.9 million Catholics, come from the INEGI 2020 census, which records self-declared religious affiliation across the whole population. Where the data years differ, we use the most recent published year and label it.