The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics

The tables on this page represents Latter-day Saint membership, as reported by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), as of December 31, 2017.[1] Except where indicated, general population figures are based on the latest CIA estimates (primarily for July 2017).[2] Percentages of LDS members were calculated with this information. The link under the names of each country, territory, etc. corresponds to brief LDS history and statistical information for that particular area.

In 2017, the LDS Church had over 30,500 congregations and a reported membership of 16,118,169.[1] The number of stakes, districts, congregations were taken from the Meetinghouse Locator.[3]

Membership defined

The LDS Church defines membership as:[4]

  1. Those who have been baptized and confirmed.
  2. Those under age nine who have been blessed but not baptized.
  3. Those who are not accountable because of intellectual disabilities, regardless of age.
  4. Unblessed children under age eight when:
    • Two member parents request it.
    • One member parent requests it and the nonmember parent gives permission.

Membership considerations

In 2005, Peggy Fletcher Stack, longtime religion columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune, estimated that about one-third of the reported LDS membership was "active" (i.e., regularly attending church services and participating in other expected meetings and obligations).[5] In 2005, this would have amounted to approximately 4 million active members among a worldwide LDS population of 12 million. Active membership varied from a high of 40 to 50 percent in congregations in North America and the Pacific Islands, to a low of about 25 percent in Latin America. Fletcher Stack's data was compiled from several sources, including a 2001 survey of religious affiliation by scholars at City University of New York and a demographer at LDS-owned Brigham Young University.

In 2003, apostle Dallin H. Oaks, noted that among recent converts "attrition is sharpest in the two months after baptism", which he attributed in part to difficulties adapting to the church's dietary code the Word of Wisdom that prohibits use of alcohol, tobacco, coffee and tea.[6] In 2001, sociologist Armand Mauss estimated that about 50 percent of LDS converts in the US stopped attending church within a year of baptism, while outside the US the rate was about 70 percent.[7]

Regions

Africa

Country Membership Population LDS Temples Missions Stakes Districts Wards Branches Congregations Family History Centers
Angola 2,45829,310,2730.01%0102014141
Benin 3,10511,038,8050.03%0110611171
Botswana 3,3762,214,8580.15%001077142
Burundi 69211,466,7560.006%00000330
Cameroon 1,94324,994,8850.008%0002013131
Cape Verde 14,205560,8992.53%01322418425
Central African Republic 2345,625,1180.004%00000110
Cote d'Ivoire 43,89524,184,8100.18%0214121149921327
Democratic Republic of the Congo 57,71483,301,1510.07%031731394218111
Egypt 97,041,07200000110
Ethiopia 1,923105,350,0200.002%00010441
Gabon 1,772,25500000220
Ghana 78,06527,499,9240.28%1423916613930551
Kenya 13,60247,615,7390.03%01241236485
Lesotho 1,0831,958,0420.06%00010551
Liberia 12,1574,689,0210.26%01402810383
Madagascar 11,88125,054,1610.05%01221426401
Malawi 2,74519,196,2460.01%00020880
Mauritius 5161,356,3880.04%00010330
Morocco 33,986,65500000110
Mozambique 10,83526,573,7060.04%01312010302
Namibia 8552,484,7800.03%00010441
Nigeria 163,745190,632,2610.09%16481636124961062
Republic of the Congo 7,1874,954,6740.15%01211311243
Reunion 949843,529[8] 0.11%00010442
Rwanda 59611,901,4840.005%00010330
Sierra Leone 19,4436,163,1950.32%01543037678
South Africa 65,75254,841,5520.12%141791067718375
Swaziland 1,9941,467,1520.14%00010662
Tanzania 1,64253,950,9350.003%00010661
Togo 4,1347,965,0550.05%0020143171
Uganda 15,97939,570,1250.04%01301615318
Zambia 4,14015,972,0000.03%011276132
Zimbabwe 31,46513,805,0840.23%01734138798
Totals 578,310989,342,6100.06%331155821,1189122,030285

Asia

Country Membership Population LDS Temples Missions Stakes Districts Wards Branches Congregations Family History Centers
Afghanistan 34,124,81100000110
Bahrain 1,410,94200100110
Cambodia 14,25616,204,4860.09%01241019298
China 1,379,302,7710004016161
Cyprus 4571,221,5490.04%00010443
Hong Kong 24,8587,191,5030.35%1161339424
India 13,5701,281,935,9110.001%024321234411
Indonesia 7,399260,580,7390.003%0121159245
Israel 2888,299,7060.003%00010440
Japan 129,335126,451,3980.10%37281315710426164
Jordan 10,248,06900010330
Kazakhstan 19718,556,6980.001%00000220
Kuwait 2,875,42200001010
Lebanon 6,229,79400000110
Macau 1,449601,9690.24%00010331
Malaysia 10,22431,381,9920.03%0006032328
Mongolia 11,6413,068,2430.38%01211213254
Philippines 765,393104,256,0760.73%221101746465741,220183
Qatar 2,314,30700002020
Singapore 3,3675,888,9260.06%0110101111
South Korea 87,86051,181,2990.17%14125654310817
Sri Lanka 1,51122,409,3810.007%00010443
Taiwan 60,30423,508,4280.26%12170108911712
Thailand 22,10068,414,1350.03%01422221438
United Arab Emirates 1,5556,072,4750.03%00105271
Vietnam 96,160,1630102010100
Totals 1,155,7643,569,891,1930.03%8431811211,1079082,015334

Europe

Country Membership Population LDS Temples Missions Stakes Districts Wards Branches Congregations Family History Centers
Albania 3,0063,047,9870.10%011067133
Armenia 3,5703,045,1910.12%0101011114
Austria 4,6648,754,4130.05%00201431716
Belgium 6,55611,491,3460.06%0020101118
Bosnia and Herzegovina 693,856,1810.002%00000220
Bulgaria 2,4187,101,5100.03%01000994
Croatia 6244,292,0950.01%01010774
Czech Republic 2,59610,674,7230.02%011075122
Denmark 4,4545,605,9480.08%11201392213
Estonia 1,1331,251,5810.09%00010442
Finland 4,9015,518,3710.09%112215153030
France 39,02967,106,1610.06%12100674311069
Georgia 2684,926,3300.005%00000111
Germany 40,03780,594,0170.05%231529663159117
Greece 80210,768,4770.007%01000331
Guernsey 6266,5020.09%00000001
Hungary 5,2149,850,8450.05%01125172213
Iceland 284339,7470.08%00000331
Ireland 3,9035,011,1020.08%001158133
Isle of Man 28788,8150.32%00001010
Italy 26,92562,137,8020.04%0210061389973
Jersey 29098,8400.29%00001011
Kosovo 1,895,25000000220
Latvia 1,2341,944,6430.06%01010553
Lithuania 9802,823,8590.03%00010553
Luxembourg 454594,1300.08%00001011
Macedonia 2,103,72100000110
Malta 209416,3380.05%00000111
Moldova 4163,474,1210.01%00010441
Montenegro 19642,5500.003%00000110
Netherlands 9,33817,084,7190.05%11302152611
Norway 4,6235,320,0450.09%012011102115
Poland 1,98338,476,2690.005%0102012124
Portugal 44,51010,839,5140.41%026431356625
Romania 3,05221,529,9670.01%0102015152
Russia 23,252142,257,5190.02%063917819864
Serbia 3787,111,0240.005%00010332
Slovakia 2725,445,8290.005%00010440
Slovenia 4261,972,1260.02%00010441
Spain 56,49648,958,1590.12%13144855413958
Sweden 9,7019,960,4870.10%114124164037
Switzerland 9,0028,236,3030.11%10502883619
Turkey 54780,845,2150.001%01000880
Ukraine 11,16744,033,8740.03%13167435035
United Kingdom 186,85264,769,4520.29%2645028144325126
Totals 516,003826,363,0980.06%1243130448076101,417774

North America

Country Membership Population LDS Temples Missions Stakes Districts Wards Branches Congregations Family History Centers
Antigua and Barbuda 23794,7310.25%00000111
Aruba 591115,1200.51%00010222
Bahamas 1,042329,9880.32%00000221
Barbados 1,047292,3360.36%01010331
Belize 5,374360,3461.49%0002012122
Bermuda 70,86400000110
Bonaire 19,408[9] 00000110
Canada 196,58635,623,6800.55%87503346147493190
Cayman Islands 23158,4410.40%00010110
Costa Rica 48,8414,930,2580.99%1210259218014
Cuba 11,147,40700010330
Curacao 538149,6480.36%00000111
Dominica 16173,8970.22%00000110
Dominican Republic 134,74310,734,2471.26%132091266919531
El Salvador 125,9366,172,0112.04%132201343016423
Grenada 425111,7240.38%00000110
Guadeloupe 512400,132[8] 0.13%00010332
Guatemala 272,44915,460,7321.76%26481528415944366
Haiti 23,04610,646,7140.22%014424224611
Honduras 175,1289,038,7411.94%143151776123833
Jamaica 6,4252,990,5610.21%0111613194
Martinique 230378,243[8] 0.06%00000111
Mexico 1,435,383124,574,7951.15%1334229421,5064811,987280
Nicaragua 98,5346,025,9511.64%02124733911214
Panama 55,4583,753,1421.48%117445287314
Puerto Rico 23,2343,351,8270.69%01502912418
Saint Kitts and Nevis 21152,7150.40%00000111
Saint Lucia 368164,9940.22%00000220
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 683102,0890.67%00000331
Sint Maarten 25142,0830.60%00000110
Trinidad and Tobago 3,4641,218,2080.28%01105491
Turks and Caicos Islands 52,57000000110
United States 6,641,886326,625,7912.03%811251,618712,4271,81114,2382,164
Virgin Islands 35,01500000110
Virgin Islands of the US 576102,9510.54%00000220
Totals 9,253,590575,301,3601.61%1091922,05810315,2412,94118,1822,866

Oceania

Country Membership Population LDS Temples Missions Stakes Districts Wards Branches Congregations Family History Centers
American Samoa 16,33951,50431.72%0050384424
Australia 151,04923,232,4130.65%5641822682308183
Cook Islands 1,8439,29019.84%00010553
Fiji 20,510920,9382.23%114327235010
French Polynesia 27,521287,8819.56%119371239420
Guam 2,516167,3581.50%01104041
Kiribati 19,690108,14518.21%00221120312
Marshall Islands 6,97074,5399.35%0120120123
Micronesia 6,217104,1965.97%0013517229
Nauru 1179,6421.21%00000110
New Caledonia 2,415279,0700.87%00106393
New Zealand 113,4364,510,3272.52%133021735222552
Niue 3051,62618.76%00000221
Northern Mariana Islands 81652,2631.56%00001012
Palau 51521,4312.40%00000111
Papua New Guinea 27,1636,909,7010.39%022121070802
Samoa 80,437200,10840.20%112001431415720
Solomon Islands 1,099647,5810.17%00010550
Tonga 64,824106,47960.88%112121363216820
Tuvalu 25711,0522.33%00000110
Vanuatu 8,786282,8143.11%0113530352
Totals 552,82537,988,3581.46%1018140408683851,253338

South America

Country Membership Population LDS Temples Missions Stakes Districts Wards Branches Congregations Family History Centers
Argentina 452,30944,293,2931.02%2147628485275760116
Bolivia 203,07311,138,2341.82%153281896625542
Brazil 1,383,799207,353,3910.67%634269401,6624372,099366
Chile 590,12417,789,2673.32%1107716432168600104
Colombia 200,51247,220,8560.42%1529111698125053
Ecuador 243,73016,290,9131.50%153992376730453
Falkland Islands 2,93100000110
French Guiana 428254,541[8] 0.17%00000110
Guyana 5,840737,7180.79%0002011114
Paraguay 93,4126,943,7391.35%12119617613719
Peru 590,12131,036,6561.90%21310219619127746144
Suriname 1,578591,9190.27%00010553
Uruguay 104,9963,360,1483.12%121831043513924
Venezuela 168,12331,304,0160.54%143451945124551
Totals 3,969,757415,078,2070.96%17946751524,1011,4225,523937

See also

References

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  2. "The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  3. "Meetinghouse Locator". www.lds.org.
  4. "Membership record". LDSTech Wiki. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  5. Peggy Fletcher Stack (2005). Keeping members a challenge for LDS church, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 26, 2005; accessed 20 December 2017
  6. Dallin H. Oaks (2003; adapted from a 2000 speech). The Role of Members in Conversion, TheEnsign.com; accessed 20 December 2017
  7. Stacy Willis (2001). Mormon Church is funding its future, The Las Vegas Sun; accessed 20 December 2017
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Population de 1968 à 2015 : comparaisons régionales et départementales". www.insee.fr (in French). Retrieved 20 April 2016.
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