A district resembles a stake in that it is an administrative organization that includes congregations. However, a district can only include branches and does not have as much autonomy as a stake. For example, a mission president conducts temple recommend interviews and most priesthood matters defer to the mission president. A district is an important preparatory step toward the Church become self-sufficient in an area. Many countries currently without their own stake or district have few available local priesthood holders due to low member activity rates or recent converts comprising the bulk of nominal church membership.
Each country and territory is provided with the number of members, number of branches, and current, if any, affiliation with another stake or district. Countries in green appear likely to have their first districts/stakes created in the near future, countries in yellow generally have a large number of recent converts and few active priesthood holders to hold leadership positions but high likelihood to have districts organized in the coming years, countries in red have member activity issues that prevent the creation of a district in the foreseeable future, countries in blue pertain to other stakes or districts and do not appear likely to become their own districts due to reasonably close proximity to their current stake or district headquarters, and countries in dark blue have a poor likelihood of the organization of their first district due to few members spread over large geographic areas.
- Bulgaria - 2,251 members - 10 branches
- Botswana - 1,693 members - 3 wards, 5 branches, 3 groups? - some units part of Roodepoort South Africa Stake
- Macau - 1,308 members - 2 branches
- Bahamas - 954 members - 2 branches, 1 group?
- Lesotho - 796 members - 2 branches, 1 group - part of the Bloemfontein South Africa District
- Northern Mariana Islands - 753 members - 1 branch - part of the Barrigada Guam Stake
- Greece - 740 members - 3 branches, 2 groups?
- Benin - 676 members - 5 branches, 1 group
- Namibia - 674 members - 2 branches
- US Virgin Islands - 570 members - 2 branches
- Curacao - 568 members - 1 branch
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 508 members - 2 branches
- Aruba - 506 members - 2 branches
- Palau - 433 members - 1 branch
- Mauritius - 418 members - 2 branches
- Central African Republic - 406 members - 1 branch
- French Guiana - 362 members - 1 branch, 1 group?
- Luxembourg - 312 members - 1 ward - part of the Nancy France Stake
- Jersey - 299 members - 1 ward - part of the Poole England Stake
- Turkey - 293 members - 4 branches
- Isle of Man - 291 members - 1 ward - part of the Liverpool England Stake
- Grenada - 279 members - 1 branch
- Niue - 275 members - 2 branches
- Iceland - 257 members - 2 branches
- Saint Lucia - 249 members - 2 branches
- Saint Maarten/Saint Martin - 213 members - 1 branch
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - 206 members - 1 branch
- Georgia - 204 members - 1 branch
- Slovakia - 203 members - 4 branches, 2 groups - part of the Brno Czech Republic District
- Antigua and Barbuda - 200 members - 1 branch
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