The growth rate of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been steadily declining for about 20 years, around the explosion of the popularity of the internet. But this year - I'm assuming COVID's played a big part - the decline in growth has been steep.
- Lowest growth rate since 1857. A 0.6% growth rate hasn't been seen since the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
- Lowest growth rate compared to world population increase since 1857. First time the church's growth rate did not out-pace the world population growth.
- Lowest total convert baptisms since 1973. Convert baptisms were a little more than half of what they were in 2019.
- Lowest total membership increase since 1973.
- Lowest child of record since 1993. A little more than half of the child of record count from 2012.
It's also the second year in a row the numbers add up to only 0.56% who died or had their names removed. The Church never releases these numbers. I calculate it from all the other numbers they provide. If you go off the death rate of the world and assumed the same death rate within the church, the dead would be around 130,000 alone, and who knows how many actually have their names removed each year?
==First Presidency==
(1) 1984-(SWK)-Russell M. Nelson - 9/9/1924 - 96
(2) 1984-(SWK)-Dallin H. Oaks - 8/12/1932 - 88
(5) 1995-(GBH)-Henry B. Eyring - 5/31/1933 - 87
==Quorum of the Twelve Apostles==
(3) 1985-(SWK)-M. Russell Ballard - 10/8/1928 - 92
(4) 1994-(HWH)-Jeffrey R. Holland - 12/3/1940 - 80
(6) 2004-(GBH)-Dieter F. Uchtdorf - 11/6/1940 - 80
(7) 2004-(GBH)-David A. Bednar - 6/15/1952 - 68
(8) 2007-(GBH)-Quentin L. Cook - 9/8/1940 - 80
(9) 2008-(TSM)-D. Todd Christofferson - 1/24/1945 - 76
(10) 2009-(TSM)-Neil L. Andersen - 8/9/1951 - 69
(11) 2015-(TSM)-Ronald A. Rasband - 2/6/1951 - 70
(12) 2015-(TSM)-Gary E. Stevenson - 8/5/1955 - 65
(13) 2015-(TSM)-Dale G. Renlund - 11/1/1952 - 68
(14) 2018-(RMN)-Gerrit W. Gong - 12/23/1953 - 67
(15) 2018-(RMN)-Ulisses Soares - 10/2/1958 - 62
