Below is a list of all of the countries and dependencies/territories of
the world with the percentage of Latter-day Saints in each location as
of 2017. Countries with an asterisk indicate that LDS membership figures
are estimated due to no official LDS membership data released to the
public. Previous data are available for
2008 and
2016.
Population figures were obtained from the CIA World Factbook for all
locations except of overseas departments of France. Population data for
French overseas collectivities/departments was accessed via
http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/OA or the most recent government source.
Click on the tables to view these data more clearly in your browser. I have obtained additional year-end 2017 membership data for several countries previously not published by the Church on the Mormon Newsroom website, such as for Bahrain, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Gabon, Kosovo, Kuwait, Macedonia (FYROM), Oman, Qatar, Senegal, and Vietnam.
ASIA
CARIBBEAN
EUROPE
MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
NORTH AMERICA
OCEANIA
SOUTH AMERICA
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
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ReplyDeleteI would love to see a breakdown of the states in the US.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize Mayotte had over 200k inhabitants. Some senior couples would be great to plant in those places. I think it would be amazing to serve in the Falkland Islands. You could meet every resident! And baptizing one family would be huge.
ReplyDeleteSo El Salvador, Chile, Uruguay, Cabo Verde and New Zealand all have a higher percentage LDS than the US! I knew some of the Pacific nations were in that category, but I didn't realize how many of them are. (Of course, these numbers do not reflect activity rates.)
ReplyDeleteCan this be downloaded as an Excel file somewhere?
ReplyDeleteWe baptized a lot in Chile. I argued with an Idaho companion in 1991 that Chile then had more members than his home state. He refused to believe me.
ReplyDeleteThat was in Angol; he was from Shelley.
Net change in Church units Friday, April 27: + 1 W + 1 B
ReplyDeleteUS + 1 W - 1 B; + 1 W TX - 1 B NY
Philipppines + 1 B; Ghana + 1 B, Coted'Ivoire - 1 B [earlier new B reported in Cote d'Ivoire was probably in Ghana instead and corrected today]
Ray, The branch in Cote d'Ivoire is a mission branch but actually in Senegal. It was first listed as Cote d'Ivoire then moved to Senegal. There are now 2 mission branches in Senegal
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nephi! Clears things up for me.
ReplyDeleteSaturday, April 28 changes: Chile - 1 B, South America South Area; Cote d'Ivoire + 1 B and Senegal + 1 B (see Nephi's post above).
ReplyDeleteChile now has 77 stakes, 16 districts, 432 Wards and 166 Branches. Senegal 2 branches (mission branches), and Cote d'Ivoire 14 stakes, 12 districts, 114 Wards, and 101 Branches.
In both my home ward and my fiancee's branch new elders quorum presidents were called today.
ReplyDeleteRecently a paper in Columbus, Ohio ran an article on missionaries working with the Nepali speaking population there. The efforts were sparked by a Nepali member family moving from Salt Lake City, and the decision of the stake president that outreach to the roughly 20,000 Bhutan-born Nepali refugees in Columbus was needed.
Is there anywhere online where the specific congregations are being reported? That is really frustrating that the church quit allowing that.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the note that goes with the * ?
ReplyDeleteCountries with an asterisk indicate that LDS membership figures are estimated due to no official LDS membership data released to the public.
DeleteWhat is the note that goes with the * ?
ReplyDeleteAny update on the situation in Turkey? I heard that all missionaries had been pulled.
ReplyDeleteYou can find any non-sensitive congregation on LDS maps, but I cannot say how quickly that is updated, and to find new congregations is not easy.
ReplyDeleteBased on my interptetation of the "*" used in these lists, I'm pretty confident that it signifies that those countries and lands do not have assigned proselityzing elders and sisters.
ReplyDeleteSome, like Pakistan and Jordan, may have assigned married couple missionaries but not younger single ones. That seems right according to the list that is presented.
The asterisk indicates countries for which I have estimated membership as the Church does not publish official membership totals due to a sensitive LDS presence of because of an oversight from the Mormon Newsroom staff or the statistical department.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that makes sense. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI guess many of those sensitive places happen to have less LDS open proseltyting.
Any chance you could correlate these to figures with self reporting on government census?
ReplyDeleteReported Change in Church units May to date:
ReplyDeleteMay 1: Liberia + 1 B, AFW; Paraguay - 1 B, SAS; Germany + 1 W, Eur; US + 4 (+ 5 W - 1 B);
ID + 2 W, ID, GA + 1 W - 1 B, NASe; VA + 1 W, NANe; UT + 1 b, UTSo; OK - 1 B, NV + 1 W, both NASw
May 2: US - 5 B; NM + 1 W - 5 B, NASw, VA - 1 W, NANe
May 3: Italy + 1 W - 1 B, Eur; Democratic Republic of Congo + 1 W,AFSe
YTD + 53 W & B; + 95 W - 42 B, + 10 stakes + 1 district; Africa + 34 W & B, US + 10 W & B
The Madagascar district created March 18, 2018, still isn't showing up on the CDOL.
ReplyDeleteJust some geographical stuff since I am a Geography nut--OK I assume Czechia is actually Czechoslovakia. Also, shouldn't Sudan be listed in the North Africa file (South Sudan is definitely a part of East Africa, though)--I am extremely surprised there are ANY members in the nation of Sudan!
ReplyDeleteCzechia is the new nickname of the Czech Republic. Czechoslovakia hasn't existed since 1993.
ReplyDeleteSudan is under the administration of the Africa South-east Area, not the Middle East/North Africa area, which I hope the Church will soon rename the Southwest Asia/North Africa Area. Middle East is a name that reeks of European bias.
ReplyDeleteEmbassies and consulates and NGOs (and a few commercial entities) attract some members in countries like Sudan. Also, South Sudan is a majority Christian land, so I imagine bigger cities, especially Khartoum, has good populations of Christians, sone of whom may have been exposed to LDS where they come from or abroad in Europe, or another transitional country.
ReplyDeleteThe globalized world increases to have Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc., in non-traditional places.
I think perhaps through Chile or other groups we may see LDS units in Antarctica someday.