Countries with the Highest Membership Growth Rates for 2006

I have not yet created a post about the fastest growing countries for the Church yet because I thought I already did. Unfortunately the Church has not yet published membership totals for 2007 yet for countries around the world, so I will use data from December 31st, 2006. Here is a list of the 15 fastest growing countries in the Church by annual growth percentages. Keep in mind this does not take the activity of members into account. Furthermore the countries with the highest growth rates tend to have few members. These percentages are found by taking the difference from year end 2005 and 2006 data and dividing by the 2005 data. The countries in bold are ones where membership has increased at least by 200 people.

1. Benin - 67.4% - 159 members
2. Georgia - 40.0% - 126 members
3. Cameroon - 31.6% - 492 members
4. Malaysia - 24.6% - 3,633 members
5. Estonia - 16.4% - 874 members
6. Ethiopia - 15.7% - 708 members
7. Zambia - 15.6% - 1,905 members
8. Sri Lanka - 15.1% - 1,108 members
9. Armenia - 13.6% - 2,359 members
10. Ghana - 12.5% - 32,965 members
11. Guyana -12.3% - 2,072 members
12. Namibia - 12.2% - 440 members
13. Latvia - 11.8% - 920 members
14. Turkey - 11.4% - 186 members
15. Aruba - 11.3% - 395 members

I did not include two countries (Niue and St. Lucia) in the top 15 fastest growing countries because their membership is only around 100 and has also fluctuated over time.

Ghana has experienced some of the most impressive growth on this list. Membership increased by around 3,000 in 2006. Two new stakes were organized in 2006 and 2007 and a temple was dedicated back in 2004.