Data story · Latter-day Saints, 1975–2025
50 years of LDS growth: record counts, not record growth
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, often called Mormons) reported an all-time high of 385,490 convert baptisms in 2025 and 2.16% membership growth, its fastest since 2012. Per 1,000 members, conversion ran at 22.0, against 45.3 in 1990. And in the U.S., where people answer surveys about belonging, about 2.5 people raised in the Church have left for every adult convert.
The records are real. Nothing below disputes a single count the Church reports; unless a figure is marked otherwise, it comes from the Church’s own annual statistical reports. The question is what those counts are measured against, so each chart sets the count beside the same number against the size of the Church.
1 · Half a century, 1975–2025
Fifty years, five times the members, and slower every decade
Membership went from 3.6M at the end of 1975 to 17.9M at the end of 2025: up 401%, or 5.0× in fifty years. But each decade grew slower than the one before, from 5.2% a year in 1975–85 to 1.4% in 2015–25, and the last decade, pandemic years included, added the fewest members of the five. 2025’s 2.16% was the fastest year since 2012, and the rolls still outgrow the world’s population (2.2% vs 0.9% in 2025): rolls, not attendance. The 1989–90 spike was a change in how children were counted, not a surge.
How fast did membership grow, decade by decade?Growth a year, compounded, and members added; * includes the 1989–90 counting change
- 1975–855.2%+2.35M added
- 1985–95*4.7%+3.42M added
- 1995–20053.0%+3.22M added
- 2005–152.2%+3.07M added
- 2015–251.4%+2.25M added
How many members, and how fast is the number growing?Members at Dec 31, and growth a year averaged over the prior three years
How many members does the Church add in a year?Net gain, Dec 31 to Dec 31: how much the members line above rose each year
2 · Converts and missionaries
A record count at half the pace
2025’s 385,490 converts broke the 1990 record of 330,877. Per 1,000 members already on the rolls, 2025 ran at 22.0, against 45.3 in 1990 and 48.3 in 1981: the dashed line. That rate has nearly tripled since 2020’s pandemic low of 7.6, a real rebound, and it is still under half the 1990 rate. The force per member shrank too, from 5.5 missionaries per 1,000 members at the end of 2014 to 4.4 at the end of 2025. Both missionary highs came right after the Church lowered the minimum age: after October 2012 the force went from 58,990 to 85,147 in two years, then fell back to 65,137 by 2018. The second cut, for women from 19 to 18, came in November 2025, and the count is climbing again: 90,000+ by September 2026. The Church’s July release says that count includes young service missionaries, who serve from home; the 88,000+ of October 2014 did not.
How many converts a year, and how many for every 1,000 members?Convert baptisms, and converts per 1,000 members on the rolls when the year began
How many missionaries, and how many for every 1,000 members?Full-time missionaries at Dec 31, and per 1,000 members at the same date; hollow circles are mid-year announcements
2b · Heads vs. hours
A record in heads, a tie in hours
The Church announces missionaries as heads, and the 90,000+ of September 2026 takes in 4,584 young service missionaries, who serve from home; October 2014’s 88,000+ didn’t count them. Take them out and 2026 is 2,584 short. Count each missionary by the hours they serve, with young service missionaries and seniors as part of a full-time week, and the two tie. The heads are the Church’s own arithmetic. The hours are a model: the Church publishes none, so each guess has a slider.
The Church publishes
- The headcount
- Counts by category
- A sample daily schedule
It doesn’t publish
- Hours actually worked
- The early-return rate
- A note that the basis changed
Counted the way 2014 was, is 90,000 a record?Missionaries as announced, on one scale from zero
How we know 2014 didn’t count them: the Church’s 2014 report lists 85,147 full-time missionaries and 30,404 church-service missionaries on separate lines, and its 2025 report still does: 78,596 full-time teaching, 4,518 young service. The July 2026 release counts them in the record. Senior service missionaries, who also serve from home, are in neither count (31,613 at the end of 2025, Church News); full-time seniors are in both.
Counted in hours, is it a record?ModelFull-time equivalents, on the same scale as the heads above
How many hours a week does each one serve?The guesses behind the hours: a full-time week counts as one missionary
Every way it’s close: September 2026 is 2% above October 2014 as announced, 3% below counted the 2014 way, and under 1% below in hours. Both highs came right after the Church lowered the minimum age, and the first one didn’t hold (section 2).
Change the guesses
The missionary week also sets the hours per convert in sections 3 and 4.
2c · The old yardstick
Three-quarters of the old two-year mission, so more must be sent
Through 2000 and beyond, a missionary mostly meant a young elder for two full years. Measured with that yardstick, one sent out today serves about 17.9 months of it, against 19.4 before the 2012 age change. The difference is mostly who gets sent: sisters were about 15% of young missionaries in the field when the age cut came and about 38% now, and sisters serve 18 months. Early returns, about 1 in 3, cost months in both eras; the one survey that asks found about the same rate before and after 2012. The field holds at about 79,500, so the Church has to send more people to fill it. This is a model: the Church publishes no early-return rate, and each guess has a slider.
How much of a two-year mission does a missionary serve today?Model
A missionary sent out today serves about three-quarters of the old two-year mission. Before the 2012 age change it was four-fifths. The difference is who gets sent: more women, and women serve 18 months.
How many must be sent out to give the service of 100 two-year elders?Missionaries called, at each era’s average months served, on one scale from zero
It takes about 134 missionaries sent out today to give the service of 100 two-year elders, against 124 before 2012. The number serving at any one time doesn’t change, about 79,500. The number who must be sent out each year does: about 53,200 now, against 39,800 if all were two-year elders. Like a school that stays the same size but has to admit more freshmen when students leave sooner.
Show all 100 missionaries, and the method
One line is one missionary in every 100 called, longest service first. Color: months served. Grey: the rest of an elder’s two years.
The average missionary called: 19.4 months served, 1.2 short from 18-month sister terms, 3.4 from early returns.
The average missionary called: 17.9 months served, 2.7 short from 18-month sister terms, 3.3 from early returns.
Early returns cost more than 18-month terms, but they aren’t new. They take about 3.3 months off each missionary called, yet the one survey that asks found about the same rate among millennials who served before and after the 2012 change (Riess), and not one Boomer respondent who had come home early (KUER). The Provo MTC alone trains more than 40,000 a year.
Young teaching missionaries only. Sisters’ share of the field (15% in Oct 2012, 38% in 2026, derived from 30,000+ of about 79,500) becomes their share of those called by dividing by months served, since shorter missions turn over faster. The Church shortened the yardstick once before: elders served 18 months from April 1982 to January 1985 (timeline). No official rate. Jana Riess and Benjamin Knoll’s Next Mormons Survey (2016, 1,156 current and 540 former U.S. members, online panel): 29% of men and 35% of women among millennials who served came home early. Source · Method
Change the guesses
A model: early returns are the Next Mormons Survey’s rates (Riess and Knoll, 2016), sister shares the Church’s own counts; the full method is in the first fold. Source · Method
3 · Harvest per laborer
Same mission, half the harvest. One convert now takes three months of full-time work.
Converts per missionary-year is how many people each full-time missionary baptizes in a year of service, averaged over three years so one unusual year can’t set the story. Hours per convert is the same number turned over: the missionary time behind each baptism, assuming 60 hours of work a week. As one falls, the other climbs. At the 1988–90 high, each convert took about 400 missionary hours; in 2020–22, about 1,050; in 2023–25, about 700. At 60 hours a week, 700 hours is about three months of full-time work for every baptism, and a two-year mission now brings in about nine converts where it once brought in sixteen. Single years swing wider: 5.0 converts per missionary in 2025, 8.4 in 1989.
How many converts can one missionary expect in a year?Converts per missionary-year, three-year averages. Hours per convert assume a 60-hour missionary week.
The counter-read. Measured from where the series starts, 1978–80 (6.6), rather than the 1988–90 high, the 2023–25 pace is 68%: about two-thirds, not half. And 2023–25 is a rebound from the COVID floor: 3.0 in 2020–22, after baptisms fell 49% in 2020. It has not regained 2009–11’s 5.3.
Which side moved: converts, or missionaries?The rate’s two inputs, one year at a time. From 1988–90 to 2023–25 (shaded), converts rose 4% and missionary-years 85%.
Convert baptisms a year
Full-time missionaries, Dec 31
Source: the Church’s annual statistical reports, 1977–2025 (convert baptisms and year-end full-time missionaries). Three-year averages are three years of converts over three years of missionary-years (the mean of each year’s two year-end counts), labelled by the years they cover. The 60-hour week is an assumption: it is the labor model’s slider above, and moving it moves the hour callouts.
4 · Where additions come from
Converts, not babies, carry the growth
Together, converts and new children of record have added about 300,000 to 400,000 people a year since the 1980s (26 of the 30 years reported from 1982 to 2019). That’s steady, not compounding: the rolls grew 3.4× over those years, so the same count is a smaller share each year, from 67.3 per 1,000 members in 1982 to 27.3 in 2025, record year included. Converts now carry it: 81% of 2025’s additions, the highest share since 2001, and each takes about 620 missionary hours at 2025’s pace, where a child of record joins as a baby in a member family. Children of record fell from 9.4 to 5.2 per 1,000 since 2008; converts swing, down 49% in 2020 and a record in 2025. Fewer babies isn’t only a Church story: Utah, the Church’s home state, went from 2.47 births per woman in 2005, the highest of any state, to 1.80 in 2024, below the 2.1 that keeps a population level.
About 300,000 to 400,000 added a year since the 1980s: steady, not compoundingConverts plus new children of record, and the same total per 1,000 members on the rolls when the year began
5 · The U.S. check
Raised Latter-day Saint, still identify as one: 70 in 100 in 2007, 54 now
Of every 100 Americans raised Latter-day Saint, 54 still identify as one, down from 70 in 2007. Under 50, it’s about a coin flip (50 in 100). Most who leave don’t join another church: 28 of the 46 now have no religion. Converts don’t close the gap: for every adult convert, about 2.5 people raised in the Church have left. The Church publishes no attendance or activity figures, so Pew’s survey is the closest independent check. It asks what religion people were raised in and what they are now, not whether they attend, so these are people who no longer claim the faith, not only people who stopped going. The Church’s own U.S. count is flat: down 186 in 2025, its first recorded drop.
Of every 100 Americans raised Latter-day Saint, how many still identify as one?One square, one person. No religion: atheist, agnostic, “nothing in particular”
2007
70 still identify
14 no religion16 another religion
2014
64 still identify
21 no religion15 another religion
2023–24
54 still identify
28 no religion18 another religion
Of every 1,000 American adults, 21 were raised Latter-day Saint. Where are they now?2023–24; one dot is one person: filled dots still identify, rings don’t
21 raised Latter-day Saint
4 joined
10 left 6 no religion 4 another religion
15 Latter-day Saints today 11 raised in it, still identify 4 converts
Across U.S. traditions, 2023–24: people who left for each one who joined
For each convert it gains, the Church loses about 40% more people than Protestant churches do (2.5 against 1.8), and under a third as many as the Catholic Church (8.4).
The numbers behind both figures, and the sources
54 of every 100 still identify as Latter-day Saints, down from 70 in 2007. Most who leave don’t join another church: of the 46 who no longer identify, 28 have no religion and 18 belong to another. The no-religion share doubled (14 → 28); the other-faith share barely moved (16 → 18). Under 50, it’s about a coin flip: 50 in 100 still identify, against 61 of those 50 and older, a gap Pew calls significant and driven by women (49 in 100 younger women, 66 older). Pew’s headline still rounds Latter-day Saints to 2% of U.S. adults, as in 2007 and 2014; to one decimal it went 1.7% → 1.6% → 1.5%, held up by a bigger pool raised in the Church (2.1% of adults, up from 1.7% in 2014).
Of the 21, 10 have left and 4 converts have joined, so 15 in 1,000 identify as Latter-day Saints today. Switching counts a whole lifetime, not one year. That’s about 2.5 people raised in the Church gone for every adult convert it has gained, up from close to one for one in 2014 (0.6% of adults left, 0.5% joined). Catholics lose more (8.4 for each convert), Protestants fewer (1.8), and no religion gains 5.9 for each one it loses (Pew’s own ratios). Pew sees only the converts who stayed, and they attend about as often as lifelong members (63% weekly, against 71%, within the margin). The ones who drift are the ones it can’t see: the Church publishes no convert retention, and outside estimates put about 5 in 10 U.S. converts still attending a year after baptism. The Church’s own U.S. count fell by 186 in 2025 (6,929,956 → 6,929,770), or 0.003%, which is flat. The number isn’t the story; the direction is. It’s the first drop on record, in the same year worldwide converts set a record, and the growth is outside the U.S., where this survey doesn’t reach.
Pew Religious Landscape Study, 2023–24: 565 current Latter-day Saints (±6.2 points) and 316 former members (±8.1). Pew asks what religion people were raised in and what they are now, not whether they attend. Earlier waves ran by phone; Pew’s bridge study says the trend comparisons hold. The Catholic, Protestant and no-religion ratios are Pew’s own, from unrounded data (the one-decimal shares would give Catholics 8.5); Pew states none for Latter-day Saints, so ≈2.5 divides the 1.0% who left by the 0.4% who joined. The row of dots is Pew’s shares of all adults (2.1% raised in the Church, 1.0% left, 0.4% joined, 1.5% today) as whole people, so its 11 of 21 still identifying rounds a little below the 54 in 100 above. Other traditions’ converts are too few to size. A second survey, the Cooperative Election Study, shows a steeper fall (1.9% of adults in 2010, 0.9% in 2025), but it’s an opt-in online panel with 161 Latter-day Saint respondents in 2025, so this page leans on Pew. The first-year figure (about half of new converts still attending a year after baptism) is an outside estimate on a different base: Matt Martinich’s 3,565 surveys of returned missionaries (2012–19), and sociologist Armand Mauss in 2001. Report · Method · By age · All traditions · The 2% headline · 2014 · U.S. decline · Year one: Martinich, Mauss · CES: RNS, Deseret
6 · Claims vs. the numbers
Every record is real. Check the denominator.
Each public claim below is set beside the rate its count leaves out. Where a claim holds up, the table says so: 2 of the 8 are accurate as stated. Claims are paraphrased and linked; outlets the Church owns are marked.
| What was said | What holds up | The denominator | The move |
|---|---|---|---|
| An apostle said the 12 months to May 31, 2025 brought more convert baptisms than any 12 months in the Church’s history; the Church’s newspaper later called 2025 a record smashed.Elder Quentin L. Cook, seminar for new mission leaders · Deseret News · Church News, June 19, 2025*, Deseret News, April 5, 2026*, Deseret News, Sept 22, 2026* | True as a count Yes. 385,490 converts in 2025 beat the 1990 record of 330,877. | Per 1,000 members, 2025 ran at 22.0, against 45.3 in 1990. Per missionary-year, 5.0 against 8.4 in 1989. In the U.S., Pew counts 1.0% of adults as former members raised in the Church and 0.4% as converts to it. | Count, not rate |
| Missionary numbers are setting new marks: the Church counted more than 90,000 in September 2026.Deseret News, citing the Church’s Sept 18 announcement · Deseret News, Sept 22, 2026*, Church Newsroom, Sept 18, 2026*, Church Newsroom, July 14, 2026* | Narrower than it sounds On the Church’s current count, yes. Its July 2026 release counts young service missionaries, who serve from home, and senior missionaries in that total. Its annual reports still list young service missionaries apart from full-time missionaries: 4,518 beside 78,596 full-time teaching missionaries at the end of 2025, as church-service missionaries were in 2014. The year-end series still peaks in 2014 at 85,147; the end of 2025 was 78,596. | About 5.0 missionaries per 1,000 members, against 5.8 at the October 2014 high. The surge follows the November 2025 cut in the sisters’ minimum age from 19 to 18; the October 2012 cut’s surge had fallen back to 65,137 by the end of 2018. For hours, and for the months each missionary called now serves, see section 2b. | Definition changeMixed basesOne-time age-cut bumpHeads ≠ hours |
| The Church’s newspaper called the July record a 12.6% increase in the missionary force over 2025, and the September count a 14.5% increase.Deseret News, reporting the Church’s July and September announcements · Deseret News, July 14, 2026*, Deseret News, Sept 18, 2026*, Church Newsroom, July 14, 2026*, 2025 report page, updated July 2026* | Narrower than it sounds Only across two bases. Both stories divide the new total by 78,596, the Church’s year-end count of full-time teaching missionaries, which leaves out the 4,518 young service missionaries its 2025 report lists on their own line. The July release says the new total takes them in. | On one basis the rise is about 6.5% by July and 8.3% by September: 88,500 and 90,000 against 83,114, year-end 2025 with young service added back. The Church’s own labels conflict: its 2025 report page, updated in July, prints 88,500 on the full-time teaching line with young service listed apart. If that label is right, 12.6% compares like with like, and the release’s description of the record is what’s wrong. | Mixed bases |
| Youth and young adults are showing engagement never seen before, with seminary and institute enrollment passing one million.Deseret News, linking its enrollment story · Deseret News, Sept 22, 2026*, Deseret News, March 30, 2026* | Narrower than it sounds Enrollment is a head count. The Church publishes no enrollment rate among eligible young people. | The Pew report the same article introduces finds 50% of adults under 50 who were raised in the Church still identify with it, against 61% of those 50 and older. | Total ≠ rateCited source points the other way |
| Latter-day Saints are keeping the faith at unusually high levels in a secularizing country.Deseret News essay by a BYU professor of religious education · Deseret News, Dec 15, 2025* | Narrower than it sounds Retention is about half, and falling: Pew measures 54% in 2023–24, down from 70% in 2007. The essay’s own long-run figures run from 82% in the 1980s to about 50% now. | On Pew’s main measure, Latter-day Saint retention trails Jewish, Muslim and religiously unaffiliated Americans (about three in four each) and Protestantism as a whole (70%). The high ranking comes from narrower cuts: people raised in a faith who still attend monthly (42% for Latter-day Saints, so 58% don’t), and denomination-by-denomination comparisons. | Metric switchHeadline vs. body |
| Compared denomination to denomination, Pew found Latter-day Saint retention among the highest.Deseret News · Deseret News, Sept 22, 2026*, Pew report PDF, footnote 10 | Narrower than it sounds Pew says something narrower, in a footnote: Latter-day Saint retention beats most Protestant denominational families, because Protestants who switch churches mostly stay Protestant. | Latter-day Saint losses mostly leave religion altogether: 28% of Americans raised in the Church now have no religion, double the 2007 share. | Footnote promotedCaveat dropped |
| Latter-day Saints are among the Americans most likely to describe a happy family life.Deseret News headline (Pew’s own wording) · Deseret News, Sept 22, 2026*, Pew, family life | Accurate Pew’s own wording, and its number: 69% rate their family life excellent or very good. | Hindus (73%) and Jews (71%) sit inside Pew’s ±6.2-point margin. The figure isn’t adjusted for marriage (about two-thirds of Latter-day Saints are married), and it counts only those who stayed: 46% of Americans raised in the Church no longer identify with it. | AccurateHeadline selectionSurvivorship |
| Membership has grown more than 66% since 2000.Deseret News · Deseret News, April 5, 2026* | Accurate 10,752,986 at the end of 1999 to 17,887,212 at the end of 2025 (+66.3%). | That is about 2.0% a year, against about 5.0% a year from 1975 to 1988. U.S. membership fell by 186 in 2025, the first recorded U.S. decline. The count is of membership records, not of people who say they belong. | Accurate |
* Owned by the Church: the Deseret News and Church News through Deseret Management Corporation, and the Church Newsroom directly. Claims are paraphrased; follow the links for the originals.
Method
How the numbers were built
One row per year, transcribed from the Church’s annual statistical reports and checked against the originals; the rules below are applied in code, and the full table is under the sources.
- Years are Dec 31; each report is read at the following April’s general conference.
- Charts run 1975–2025, fifty years; the Dec 31, 1974 count is the base for 1975’s rates. Decade growth is compound growth a year from one Dec 31 to the Dec 31 ten years later; three-year growth is the same over the trailing three years.
- Membership for 1974–1997 uses the 2013 Church Almanac revisions; the reports printed rounded estimates for 1977–1991. From 1998 the two agree.
- On the paired charts, the solid line reads against the left axis and is the count the Church reports; the dashed line reads against the right axis and is the same measure against the size of the Church. Both axes start at zero.
- Flows (converts, children, all additions, net gain) are per 1,000 members on the rolls when the year began; stocks (missionaries) are against same-date membership.
- Converts per missionary use missionary-years: the mean of the two year-end counts. The harvest chart averages three years: three years of converts over three years of missionary-years.
- Missionaries are year-end full-time (teaching) missionaries from 1977; no year-end count was published earlier. Mid-year announcements appear only as hollow markers. The 2026 announcements also count young service missionaries, who serve from home; the October 2014 count did not.
- The Church’s live 2025 report page now shows July 2026 missionary figures; this page uses the Dec 31, 2025 values as first published and in the May 2026 Liahona.
- Children of record: the “increase in” series was printed for 1982–88 and 1997–2007; from 2008 it is “new children of record,” likely a gross count. Gaps are drawn, not filled.
- Temples are dedicated temples, including any closed for renovation; the 2024 report stopped counting closed temples as in operation.
- Pew’s 2007 and 2014 waves ran by phone and 2023–24 mostly online and on paper; Pew’s bridge study says the comparisons hold.
- The old yardstick is a model, badged as such, with every assumption on the page. It converts the Church’s field shares (sisters as a share of those serving) to shares of those called, since shorter missions turn over faster.
- 1989–90 carry a counting-change flag and are excluded from every peak this page quotes.
- U.S. membership comes from archived copies of the Church’s U.S. country page, with 1999, 2003 and 2006 from the Church Almanac. Years with no exact published U.S. total (before 1999, 2001–02, 2004–05, 2007 and 2020) are gaps, not estimates.
Show the data, 1974–2025
| Year | Members | Net gain | Growth | Converts | per 1,000 | Children | Missionaries | Congregations | Members / cong. | Temples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 3,409,987 | 69,018 | 7,773 | 439 | 16 | |||||
| 1975 | 3,572,202 | 162,215 | 4.76% | 95,412 | 28.0 | 8,151 | 438 | 16 | ||
| 1976 | 3,742,749 | 170,547 | 4.77% | 133,959 | 37.5 | 8,619 | 434 | 16 | ||
| 1977* | 3,969,220 | 226,471 | 6.05% | 167,939 | 44.9 | 25,300 | 9,160 | 433 | 16 | |
| 1978* | 4,166,854 | 197,634 | 4.98% | 152,000 | 38.3 | 27,669 | 9,854 | 423 | 17 | |
| 1979* | 4,404,121 | 237,267 | 5.69% | 193,000 | 46.3 | 29,454 | 11,486 | 383 | 17 | |
| 1980* | 4,639,822 | 235,701 | 5.35% | 211,000 | 47.9 | 29,953 | 12,591 | 369 | 19 | |
| 1981* | 4,920,449 | 280,627 | 6.05% | 224,000 | 48.3 | 29,700 | 13,213 | 372 | 20 | |
| 1982* | 5,162,619 | 242,170 | 4.92% | 207,000 | 42.1 | 124,000 | 26,300 | 13,616 | 379 | 20 |
| 1983* | 5,351,724 | 189,105 | 3.66% | 189,419 | 36.7 | 112,000 | 26,565 | 13,994 | 382 | 26 |
| 1984* | 5,641,054 | 289,330 | 5.41% | 192,983 | 36.1 | 98,000 | 27,655 | 14,463 | 390 | 32 |
| 1985* | 5,919,483 | 278,429 | 4.94% | 197,640 | 35.0 | 95,000 | 29,265 | 15,005 | 395 | 37 |
| 1986* | 6,166,974 | 247,491 | 4.18% | 216,210 | 36.5 | 93,000 | 31,803 | 15,389 | 401 | 40 |
| 1987* | 6,394,314 | 227,340 | 3.69% | 227,284 | 36.9 | 99,000 | 34,750 | 16,006 | 399 | 41 |
| 1988* | 6,721,210 | 326,896 | 5.11% | 256,515 | 40.1 | 93,000 | 36,132 | 16,558 | 406 | 41 |
| 1989* | 7,308,444 | 587,234 | 8.74% | 318,940 | 47.5 | 39,739 | 17,305 | 422 | 43 | |
| 1990* | 7,761,179 | 452,735 | 6.19% | 330,877 | 45.3 | 43,651 | 18,090 | 429 | 44 | |
| 1991* | 8,089,848 | 328,669 | 4.23% | 297,770 | 38.4 | 43,395 | 18,810 | 430 | 44 | |
| 1992* | 8,404,087 | 314,239 | 3.88% | 274,477 | 33.9 | 46,025 | 20,081 | 419 | 44 | |
| 1993* | 8,689,168 | 285,081 | 3.39% | 304,808 | 36.3 | 48,708 | 21,002 | 414 | 45 | |
| 1994* | 9,024,368 | 335,200 | 3.86% | 300,730 | 34.6 | 47,311 | 21,774 | 414 | 46 | |
| 1995* | 9,338,859 | 314,491 | 3.48% | 304,330 | 33.7 | 48,631 | 22,697 | 411 | 47 | |
| 1996* | 9,692,441 | 353,582 | 3.79% | 321,385 | 34.4 | 52,938 | 23,528 | 412 | 49 | |
| 1997* | 10,071,783 | 379,342 | 3.91% | 317,798 | 32.8 | 75,214 | 56,531 | 24,670 | 408 | 51 |
| 1998 | 10,354,241 | 282,458 | 2.80% | 299,134 | 29.7 | 76,829 | 57,853 | 25,551 | 405 | 53 |
| 1999 | 10,752,986 | 398,745 | 3.85% | 306,171 | 29.6 | 84,118 | 58,593 | 25,793 | 417 | 68 |
| 2000 | 11,068,861 | 315,875 | 2.94% | 273,973 | 25.5 | 81,450 | 60,784 | 25,915 | 427 | 102 |
| 2001 | 11,394,522 | 325,661 | 2.94% | 292,612 | 26.4 | 69,522 | 60,850 | 26,084 | 437 | 107 |
| 2002 | 11,721,548 | 327,026 | 2.87% | 283,138 | 24.8 | 81,132 | 61,638 | 26,143 | 448 | 114 |
| 2003 | 11,985,254 | 263,706 | 2.25% | 242,923 | 20.7 | 99,457 | 56,237 | 26,237 | 457 | 116 |
| 2004 | 12,275,822 | 290,568 | 2.42% | 241,239 | 20.1 | 98,870 | 51,067 | 26,670 | 460 | 119 |
| 2005 | 12,560,869 | 285,047 | 2.32% | 243,108 | 19.8 | 93,150 | 52,060 | 27,087 | 464 | 122 |
| 2006 | 12,868,606 | 307,737 | 2.45% | 272,845 | 21.7 | 94,006 | 53,164 | 27,475 | 468 | 124 |
| 2007 | 13,193,999 | 325,393 | 2.53% | 279,218 | 21.7 | 93,698 | 52,686 | 27,827 | 474 | 124 |
| 2008* | 13,508,509 | 314,510 | 2.38% | 265,593 | 20.1 | 123,502 | 52,494 | 28,109 | 481 | 128 |
| 2009 | 13,824,854 | 316,345 | 2.34% | 280,106 | 20.7 | 119,722 | 51,736 | 28,424 | 486 | 130 |
| 2010 | 14,131,467 | 306,613 | 2.22% | 272,814 | 19.7 | 120,528 | 52,225 | 28,660 | 493 | 134 |
| 2011 | 14,441,346 | 309,879 | 2.19% | 281,312 | 19.9 | 119,917 | 55,410 | 28,784 | 502 | 136 |
| 2012 | 14,782,473 | 341,127 | 2.36% | 272,330 | 18.9 | 122,273 | 58,990 | 29,014 | 509 | 140 |
| 2013 | 15,082,028 | 299,555 | 2.03% | 282,945 | 19.1 | 115,486 | 83,035 | 29,253 | 516 | 141 |
| 2014 | 15,372,337 | 290,309 | 1.92% | 296,803 | 19.7 | 116,409 | 85,147 | 29,621 | 519 | 144 |
| 2015 | 15,634,199 | 261,862 | 1.70% | 257,402 | 16.7 | 114,550 | 74,079 | 30,016 | 521 | 149 |
| 2016 | 15,882,417 | 248,218 | 1.59% | 240,131 | 15.4 | 109,246 | 70,946 | 30,304 | 524 | 155 |
| 2017 | 16,118,169 | 235,752 | 1.48% | 233,729 | 14.7 | 106,771 | 67,049 | 30,506 | 528 | 159 |
| 2018 | 16,313,735 | 195,566 | 1.21% | 234,332 | 14.5 | 102,102 | 65,137 | 30,536 | 534 | 161 |
| 2019 | 16,565,036 | 251,301 | 1.54% | 248,835 | 15.3 | 94,266 | 67,021 | 30,940 | 535 | 167 |
| 2020 | 16,663,663 | 98,627 | 0.60% | 125,930 | 7.6 | 65,440 | 51,819 | 31,136 | 535 | 168 |
| 2021 | 16,805,400 | 141,737 | 0.85% | 168,283 | 10.1 | 89,069 | 54,539 | 31,315 | 537 | 170 |
| 2022 | 17,002,461 | 197,061 | 1.17% | 212,172 | 12.6 | 89,059 | 62,544 | 31,330 | 543 | 175 |
| 2023 | 17,255,394 | 252,933 | 1.49% | 251,763 | 14.8 | 93,594 | 67,871 | 31,490 | 548 | 186 |
| 2024 | 17,509,781 | 254,387 | 1.47% | 308,682 | 17.9 | 91,617 | 74,127 | 31,676 | 553 | 202 |
| 2025 | 17,887,212 | 377,431 | 2.16% | 385,490 | 22.0 | 91,835 | 78,596 | 32,046 | 558 | 211 |
* Flagged year (rounded estimate, counting change, estimate or definition break); see the CSV’s flags column.
Church statistical reports, 1974–2025 (general conference archive and Church Newsroom; 2025 via the Liahona and the report as first published) · Almanac-revised membership · Martinich on the 1989 counting change · Pew Research Center · World Bank population growth · General Handbook ch. 24 · Missionary Standards · Next Mormons Survey · the Church’s U.S. country pages · Church Newsroom and Deseret News (both Church-owned; ownership) · Salt Lake Tribune. Data: lds-church-growth.csv and lds-us-membership.csv. Original viz on Tableau Public · Data sources