2021
2019
Early Conference Report: Record Number Leaving Church
2018 was a dubious year for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
They saw 140,868 members leave their fold.
2019 April General Conference Stats
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has seen its fair share of changes throughout time. …
This is what happens when you try to hide evil. Eventually truth prevails.
Here are the numbers for 2019. As you’ll see, the only news that remained the same was the downward trend of their ‘inspired works’.
2018
Trying to nail down true numbers for stats of the LDS Church is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. You can read the Church’s version of membership rates, and other data, but know the information you’re being fed is rarely true.
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est data here for the truth! Using the Church’s own data, and real math, we cut through the fog of Mormon confusion, so be sure to check back often!
General Conference April 2018 Church Stats
The only stat that saw an upward trend was the inflated, unaccounted for membership numbers the Church added for 2017. Everything else for the previous two years was a decline including retention, baptisms, and even the number of congregations.
LDS Priesthood Restructuring and Membership Outlook
The Church busied itself with major restructuring of core programs; Visiting Teaching, and their Priesthood for example.
It’s doubtful their changes will bring positive results. As it is, there are 5.49% less missionaries than the previous year, and they’re converting less than three people in their two year missions. The Church’s convert growth rate fell to 2.66% of total Mormons, and 31% of their new members are unaccounted for which means they either died, or were excommunicated.
2015
Putting Things in Perspective
Last week we posted an article on the Church’s vital stat report they presented at their April General Conference, and as we saw their numbers didn’t look all that great. Within a few days of posting the article, I kept coming across other articles painting a picture of even worse news.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported the Church experienced the ‘lowest percentage rise since 1937’.
The Church’s annual report in April 2016 claims they have well over 15m members, but a minimum of 110,090 of those are unaccounted for, meaning they’ve just added them out of thin air…
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This is another major loss of membership, just as we saw last year. We’re in agreement with others that it’s indicative of another mass exodus of Mormons.
To date, it’d be the 2nd largest one year loss in the Church’s history, with 2014 being slightly higher. Matt Martinich, an LDS statistician who runs LDS Church Growth Blogspot, also reported this is the worst growth membership rate since 1937.
As long as the Church continues to add fabricated numbers to their statistics, it’s going to be difficult at best to trust anything they say.
The data shows their conversion rate is down over 13.3% to a mere 1.65% increase over last year. The missionary workforce conversion rates are also down 13% to 3.4 per missionary. The membership increase rates are falling as well – it’s now at 1.7%, the worst since 1937. The only thing we know for sure is the numbers are falling while they’re proclaiming just the opposite.
2014
2014 – Mormon Church Growth, Activity Rate and Retention
A look at the Church’s stats shows less than 30% of Mormons are active worldwide. Instead of 15 million members the Church claims they have, truth reveals the actual numbers are more likely in the low 4’s.
The LDS Church released their annual statistical report at the April 2013 General Conference showing they had a loss of more than 98,000 in one year. It’s the biggest loss since 1982.
We’re wondering if this is a sign of what’s to come?
2013
2013 – LDS Church Membership, Activity Rates, and Retention
Each and every year, the Church’s numbers become more erratic. Some years they report a smaller gain than what is in their records, and other years they mysteriously seem to have ghost members boosting their rosters
In 2013 we reported that only 22% of US members born into active families remain active, and a paltry 25% of the Latin-American countries were consistently active.
According to Cumorah.com the Church’s activity rate is dismal at best. They reported only ‘…22% of U.S. members born to active LDS families remain active lifelong,,,’
It’s obvious the Church is facing some hard times no matter the location. For that we’re praising the Lord, but it’s a call for us to be even more diligent about praying these people come to know the Lord, and not just leave the Church!
2012
LDS Church Growth (Mormon Dilemma 211)
Most Mormon converts aren’t active more than a year afterwards. It was estimated that roughly 30,000 Mormons leave the Church every year, but this is probably untrue. In reality, the numbers are much higher.
Membership rate increases had slowed to a snail’s pace at 2.37% in 2009 to 2.22% the following year (2010). Unfortunately for the Church, 2012 didn’t offer them any signs of hope for boosting the activity, or membership numbers.
