LDS Church Membership 2025 - Did America Actually Grow?
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LDS Church membership in 2025 grew faster than it has in over a decade, and in the United States it went completely flat. Both numbers come from the same report.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported 385,490 convert baptisms for 2025, an increase of nearly 25 percent, and a worldwide total of 17,887,212 members. Over the same
twelve months the U.S. total moved from 6,929,956 to 6,929,770. This breakdown asks whether the LDS Church is growing or shrinking, and answers it with the Church's own figures rather
than a survey. We cover where the 385,490 converts actually came from, why the record 88,500 full-time missionaries matters, what 204 operating temples and 172 more announced or under
construction forecast about the next thirty years, and why nobody outside the Church Office Building can tell you the activity rate. One flat year in the United States is noise. Two would be something else.
Sources:
2025 statistical report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Newsroom facts and statistics, Church News, Deseret News, Becker Friedman Institute.
Chapters:
00:00 Two Numbers That Clash
00:55 LDS Church Membership 2025
02:10 US Membership Goes Flat
03:35 Twenty-Five Years Of Growth
05:15 Where The Converts Came From
06:45 Missionaries And Temple Building
08:40 What Nobody Can Measure
10:10 What To Watch In 2027
Full series: Latter-day Saint Institutional Analysis playlist.
Which figure surprised you most? Say so in the comments.
#LatterDaySaints #ChurchGrowth #ReligionNews
~Sources:
2025 Statistical Report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Newsroom, 4 April 2026.
Tad Walch, "Latter-day Saint membership passed 17.88 million in 2025 as church's growth accelerates," Deseret News, 4 April 2026.
"2025 statistical report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Church News, 5 April 2026.
David Schneider, "Church membership growth across U.S. states over 25 years," Church News, 27 August 2026.
"Compare Church statistical year-end reports from 2023 to 2025," Church News, 2 August 2026.
Church Newsroom, Facts and Statistics, United States country and state pages - source of the tabulated year-over-year U.S. membership totals.
Devin Pope, "Religious Worship Attendance in America: Evidence from Cellphone Data," Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago, 2024. Cited for self-reported attendance exceeding observed attendance across all traditions studied.
Pew Research Center, Religious Landscape Study 2023-24. Cited for the Latter-day Saint share of the U.S. population holding near two percent since 2007.
The Cumorah Foundation datasets were consulted in research but are not cited in the narration, because every figure spoken aloud is available in a Church-published source.
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LDS Church Membership 2025 - Did America Actually Grow?
Scripture Uncovered
99 views
LDS Church membership in 2025 grew faster than it has in over a decade, and in the United States it went completely flat. Both numbers come from the same report.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported 385,490 convert baptisms for 2025, an increase of nearly 25 percent, and a worldwide total of 17,887,212 members. Over the same
twelve months the U.S. total moved from 6,929,956 to 6,929,770. This breakdown asks whether the LDS Church is growing or shrinking, and answers it with the Church's own figures rather
than a survey. We cover where the 385,490 converts actually came from, why the record 88,500 full-time missionaries matters, what 204 operating temples and 172 more announced or under
construction forecast about the next thirty years, and why nobody outside the Church Office Building can tell you the activity rate. One flat year in the United States is noise. Two would be something else.
Sources:
2025 statistical report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Newsroom facts and statistics, Church News, Deseret News, Becker Friedman Institute.
Chapters:
00:00 Two Numbers That Clash
00:55 LDS Church Membership 2025
02:10 US Membership Goes Flat
03:35 Twenty-Five Years Of Growth
05:15 Where The Converts Came From
06:45 Missionaries And Temple Building
08:40 What Nobody Can Measure
10:10 What To Watch In 2027
Full series: Latter-day Saint Institutional Analysis playlist.
Which figure surprised you most? Say so in the comments.
#LatterDaySaints #ChurchGrowth #ReligionNews
~Sources:
2025 Statistical Report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Newsroom, 4 April 2026.
Tad Walch, "Latter-day Saint membership passed 17.88 million in 2025 as church's growth accelerates," Deseret News, 4 April 2026.
"2025 statistical report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Church News, 5 April 2026.
David Schneider, "Church membership growth across U.S. states over 25 years," Church News, 27 August 2026.
"Compare Church statistical year-end reports from 2023 to 2025," Church News, 2 August 2026.
Church Newsroom, Facts and Statistics, United States country and state pages - source of the tabulated year-over-year U.S. membership totals.
Devin Pope, "Religious Worship Attendance in America: Evidence from Cellphone Data," Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago, 2024. Cited for self-reported attendance exceeding observed attendance across all traditions studied.
Pew Research Center, Religious Landscape Study 2023-24. Cited for the Latter-day Saint share of the U.S. population holding near two percent since 2007.
The Cumorah Foundation datasets were consulted in research but are not cited in the narration, because every figure spoken aloud is available in a Church-published source.