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LDS Numbers

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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