150 Years of the Restored Gospel

A Statistical Profile:

What Numbers Tell Us about Ourselves

Church Growth (With projections to the year 2000)

Year	Missions	Stakes	Stake Wards and Branches
1840	2	11
1850	9	1
1860	8	4
1870	7	9
1880	10	23
1890	12	32
1900	20	43	448
1910	21	62	694
1920	24	83	959
1930	30	104	1000
1940	35	134	1191
1950	43	180	1541
1960	58	319	2882
1970	92	537	4922
1978	168	990	8064
1980	190	1190	9550
1990	300	2400	19,000
2000	460	3600	29,000

Estimated number of members of the Church since the beginning of this dispensation through 1980: 5.5 million.

Percent of World	Year	Church Population
	1830	62
	1840	30,000
0.005%	1850	60,000
	1860	80,000
	1870	110,000
	1880	160,000
	1890	205,000
0.01%	1900	268,000
	1910	393,000
	1920	526,000
	1930	672,000
	1940	863,000
0.04%	1950	1,111,000
0.06%	1960	1,693,000
0.08%	1970	2,931,000
	1978	4,156,000
0.11%	1980	4,625,000
0.14%	1990	7,525,000
0.18%	2000	11,142,000

Church Buildings

Country	Historic Sites, Visitors Centers	Separate Branch Genealogical Libraries*	Hdqts. Buildings	Distrib. Centers	Institutes & Seminaries	Meeting- houses	Mission Properties	Temples	Welfare Buildings	Total
U.S. & Canada	96	12	18	1	427	4,106	55	13	130	4,858
Outside U.S. & Canada	6	1	15	19	9	1,540	103	6	1	1,700
Totals	102	13	33	20	436	5,646	158	19	131	6,558

• There are 329 additional libraries located in meetinghouses.

Membership statistics (Estimates through 1980)

Melchizedek Priesthood	565,000
Relief Society	1,337,000
Aaronic Priesthood (includes adults)	500,000
Young Women (ages 12–18)	307,000
Families	1,780,000

Distribution of Members (Projected through 1980)

Australia-New Zealand	111,000
Hawaii-Pacific Isles	101,000
Canada	99,000
United States (excluding Hawaii)	3,254,000
Mexico-Central America	330,000
South America	380,000
British Isles	117,000
Europe	104,000
South Africa	11,000
Japan-Korea	60,000
Southeast Asia-Philippines	58,000

Temple Ordinance Summary, 1830–1979

Ordinances for the dead
Baptisms	62,595,930
Endowments	59,845,076
Sealing of couples	14,943,643
Sealing of child to parents	53,625,543
Ordinances for the living
Endowments	1,223,829
Sealing of couples	570,254
Sealing of child to parents	622,875

Temple Ordinances

	Endowments per given year	Sealings of couples for the living, per given year	Sealings of couples for the dead, per given year
1846	839
1860	1,042
1870	2,268
1880	11,099
1890	30,843	1,101	9,352
1900	31,621
1910	55,423	1,950	12,652
1920	144,757
1930	366,556	944	39,410
1940	593,675
1950	455,292	6,070	127,336
1960	1,086,586
1970	1,698,542	14,180	232,308
1979	3,924,867	23,817	1,830,292

Total Missionaries

Decade Ending In	Called in Decade
1830	16
1840	661
1850	1,425
1860	751
1870	709
1880	1,544
1890	2,389
1900	6,126
1910	8,254
1920	7,424
1930	10,140
1940	8,811
1950	14,942
1960	24,280
1970	65,460
1971–1979	110,880
Total	263,812

Convert Baptisms 1979 estimate: 193,000

Welfare Services Activities

	1979	1978	1975	1970	1965	1960	1955
Number of People Assisted	139,311 (est.)	111,449	112,715	84,500	106,285	98,411	58,778
Number of Donated Manhours	3,903,000 (est.)	3,548,000	3,200,000 (est.)	1,567,459	586,527	717,792	715,384
Number of Workers at D.I.	2,120	1,992	1,628	900 (est.)	702	563	380
Number of People Placed in Gainful Employment	18,476 (est.)	21,217	20,078	11,500	11,662	5,318	3,732
Number of Welfare Services Missionaries	717	511	272

Doctrine and Covenants Translations

Language	Year Published
English	1835
Danish	1852
German	1876
Swedish	1888
Dutch	1908
Armenian	1941
Spanish	1948
English (Braille)	1948
Portuguese	1950
Finnish	1955
Japanese	1957
Norwegian	1957
French	1958
Tongan	1959
Samoan	1963
Italian	1965
Tahitian	1965
Korean	1968
Chinese	1977
Indonesian	1979
Thai	1979

Pearl of Great Price Translations

Language	Year Published
English	1851
German	1882
Danish	1883
Dutch	1911
Swedish	1927
Samoan	1944
Spanish	1948
English (Braille)	1952
Portuguese	1952
Tahitian	1952
Norwegian	1955
Finnish	1957
Japanese	1957
French	1958
Tongan	1959
Italian	1965
Korean	1968
Chinese	1976
Thai	1979
Indonesian	1979

Book of Mormon Translations

Language	Year Published
English	1830
English (Braille)	1939
Danish	1851
German	1852
French	1852
Italian	1852
Swedish	1878
Spanish	1886
Maori	1889
Dutch	1890
Samoan	1903
Tahitian	1904
Japanese	1909
Portuguese	1939
Tongan	1946
Norwegian	1950
Finnish	1954
Rarotongan	1965
Chinese	1965
Korean	1967
Afrikaans	1972
Thai	1976
Indonesian	1977
Aymara	1977 (Selections)
Cakchiquel	1978 (Selections)
Croatian	1979
Quechua (Peru)	1979 (Selections)
Greek	1979 (Selections)
Hungarian	1979 (Selections)
Kekchi	1979 (Selections)
Quiche	1979 (Selections)
Bulgarian	1980 (Selections)