Who cares about the new Pope?

WHO CARES ABOUT THE NEW POPE? A selection of countries with a high percentage of Catholics, a high number of Caltholics or both % of Catholics in country Millions of Catholics in country : 10 million Europe Spain Italy Ireland Poland France The Vatican 94% 90% 87.4% 89.8% 85.5% 100% iiii. 44.2 55.1 4.1 34.5 56.1 0.0009 Africa DRC Uganda Nigeria Equitorial Guinea Burundi Rwanda Cape Verde 50% 41.9% 15% 94% 61.4 % 56.5 % 90 % 36.8 14.1 25.5 0.6 6.5 6.6 0.5 South America Brazil Colombia Argentina Venezuela Bolivia 73.6% 90% 92% 96% 95% jiiiiii¡ii liit 146.7 40.7 38.8 26.9 9.8 Asia and Oceania Philippines Indonesia East Timor Lebanon Austrailia China 80.9% 3% 98% 28.4% 25.8% 0.75% A. A. 84 7.5 1.1 1.2 5.7 10.1 North and Central America Mexico United States Canada Dominican Republic Honduras 82.7% 23.9% 42.6% 95% 97% 95.1 75 14.6 9.6 8. WHO CHOOSES THE POPE? Does the College of Cardinals fairly represent the World's Catholics The World's Catholics are from Cardinal electors are from Europe South America 26.3 52.1 27.9 11.1 Africa North & Central America Asia and Oceania 12.6 9.4 20.9 171 12.2 10.3 Source: CIA World Factbook - extracted March 12013, news.bbc.co.uk, 'Roman Catholicism in Equatorial Guinea', by Lambert M Surhone (Google Books), www.theafricancourier.de, www.ewtn.com guardiandigitalagency