Worldwide statistics for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Statistics
Last updated 2009-10-06
Mormon statistics
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown from 6 members in 1830 to 13.5 million worldwide. There are 28,000 congregations.
Membership of the Church reached 1 million in 1947.
The Church has 128 Temples, most of them in the United States, followed by South America; there are 3 in Africa, 10 in Europe, 6 in East Asia, and 6 in Australia and New Zealand.
Church materials are printed in 166 languages.
Geographical distribution
- North America - 8,065,619
- South America - 3,278,400
- Europe - 464,996
- Asia - 969,602
- Africa - 287,555
- Oceania - 304,643
Source: Church figures for 2008.
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