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The most significant announcement from The Cumorah Foundation this month is the completion of a comprehensive historical database of country-by-country Church statistics spanning more than a century. The database includes annual membership totals dating back to 1920 (when available) as well as annual statistics for congregations (including ward and branch breakdowns), stakes, districts, missions, and temples (announced and dedicated) for every country or territory for which data have been published by the Church. Historical data for wards, branches, stakes, districts, missions, and temples are available from 1987–2025.
Data were compiled from the retired Deseret News Church Almanac series and the Church’s official Newsroom site where annual country-by-country statistics have been published. To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive publicly available compilation of historical Church statistics ever assembled.
This resource provides valuable data for researchers, historians, journalists, members, and others interested in analyzing long-term trends in Church growth, missionary expansion, organizational development, congregational consolidation, and geographic outreach throughout the world. Users can identify historical milestones, compare regional growth patterns, and examine changes in Church development over time at both global and national levels.
The database is available for viewing in Google Sheets and may also be downloaded here.
3 comments:
Matt, This is a great work you've done on the "Comprehensive Historical Database". I'm curious if it's possible to break it down on a second Sheet by 1st Level Subdivisions by country? (i.e. States, Provinces, Regions) ?
Like I did several years ago in the wikipedia article now deleted called "List of Stakes of the Church". All Stakes at that time both active and historical by States, Provinces, Regions.
Here was the last wayback archive capture of my article on 27 December 2018.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181227073949/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stakes_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
I served in Santiago, Chile and remember a prophecy by President Hinckley that the church there would reach one million members one day. Nice to see they have crossed 600,000. Hoping they can reach one million in my lifetime!
Next weekend, May 16-17, 2026, at least 2 neighboring Stakes in Mexico City Have Stake Conference scheduled. Both the "México City Alamedas Stake (1989626)", with 7 wards + 1 branch, and the "México City Bosques
(528595)" with 6 wards. The latter Bosques Stake has no other Conferences planned the latter half of 2026 yet. I wonder if they will be combined into 1 larger Stake, after it's last planned stake next weekend?
I couldn't find any Facebook group posts about a "Special Confernence" yet.
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/1989626 (México City Alamedas Stake (1989626)
https://maps.churchofjesuschrist.org/stakes/528595 (México City Bosques
Stake (528595)
Also, the México City Meyehualco Stake (512427) and the México City Villa Coapa Stake (496553), neighbors have conference next sunday 5/17 also. So it may just be coincidence all 4 on the same weekend?
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