Statistical Report 1975

For the information of the members of the Church:

The First Presidency issued the following statistical report concerning the membership of the Church at the end of the year 1975:

Church Units

Number of stakes of Zion at the close of 1975	737
Number of wards	5,095
Number of independent branches in stakes	1,295
Total wards and independent branches in stakes at the close of the year	6,390
Number of mission branches at the close of the year	1,761
Number of full-time missions at the end of the year	134

Church Membership, December 31, 1975

In the stakes	3,126,469
In the missions	445,733
Total membership	3,572,202

Church Growth during 1975

Children blessed in stakes and missions	79,723
Children of record baptized in stakes and missions	50,263
Converts baptized in stakes and missions	95,412

Social Statistics (Based on 1975 data from the stakes and missions)

Birthrate per thousand	27.79
Number of persons married per thousand	13.75
Death rate per thousand	4.36

Priesthood

Members holding the Aaronic Priesthood, December 31, 1975

Deacons	140,832
Teachers	106,934
Priests	178,241
Total number holding Aaronic Priesthood	426,007

Members holding the Melchizedek Priesthood, December 31, 1975

Elders	308,863
Seventies	25,734
High Priests	113,189
Total number holding Melchizedek Priesthood	447,786
Grand total, members holding Aaronic or Melchizedek Priesthood	873,793

(An increase of 32,051 during the year 1975)

Church Organizations (Enrollment)

Relief Society	954,957
Sunday School	3,243,531
Aaronic Priesthood-age young men	257,082
Young Women	223,440
Primary Association	484,261

Welfare Plan

Number of persons assisted during the year	112,715
Number placed in remunerative employment	20,078
Man-days of work donated to the welfare plan (estimated)	330,000
Unit-days of equipment use donated	10,045

Genealogical Society

Names cleared in 1975 for temple ordinances

3,394,762

Genealogical records microfilmed in 37 countries during the year brought the total to 876,532 100-foot rolls of microfilm for use of the Church, which are the equivalent of over 4,219,504 printed volumes of 300 pages each.

Temples

Number of endowments performed during 1975 in the 16 operating temples

For the living	47,142
For the dead	3,027,956
Total number of endowments	3,075,098

Church School System

Total 1975 cumulative enrollment in Church schools, including institutes and seminaries

324,670

Those Who Have Passed Away

President Hugh B. Brown, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and former counselor in the First Presidency; Elder ElRay L. Christiansen, Assistant to the Twelve; Elder Milton R. Hunter of the First Council of the Seventy; Emma Marr Petersen, wife of Elder Mark E. Petersen of the Quorum of the Twelve; Jane “Jennie” Foote Taylor Richards, widow of Stayner Richards, former Assistant to the Twelve; Doyle L. Green, director/editor of Church magazines; David Smith, first president of the Idaho Falls Temple; Elbert Raine Curtis, former superintendent of the YMMIA; Earl C. Crockett, former acting president of BYU; Ivy Baker Priest, former United States Treasurer.