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The latest statistics on the Latter-day Saints
given in its 175th Annual General Conference (2005) were as follows:
Stakes: 2,665
Missions 338
Districts: 646
Wards: 26,670
Total membership: 12, 275, 822 (up from 11,985,254 in 2003 – a
difference of 290,568)
Increase in children of record: 98,870
Convert Baptisms: 241, 239 (down from 242, 943 in 2003 – a difference
of 1704)
Full time missionaries 51,067 (down from 56,237 in 2003 – a difference
of 5170)
Temples dedicated in 2004: 3
Temples Rededicated: 2
Total Temples in use: 119
Bill McKeever of Mormonism Research Ministry
comments:
"Once again the convert baptism rate is down
from its peak of 330, 877 way back in 1990. If you add the new converts
with the amount of children baptized, and subtract that number from
the total membership, you get 340,109 or a difference of 49,541. I’m
sure many of that 49,541 was a result of death. I wonder how many left
on their own."
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