This is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' own 2024 Statistical Report, read at General Conference and published through its Newsroom, giving the church's official membership, congregation and unit counts for the year. As the church's own annual return it is authoritative for what the church itself counts and reports, in the categories it defines. Its limit is that it is not an independent demographic study: recorded membership includes everyone baptized or blessed as a child who has not been formally removed from the rolls, whether or not they remain active or self-identify as Latter-day Saint today, so it can exceed counts from independent census or survey self-identification in a number of countries, and a claim about active or practicing membership needs a source outside the church's own statistical return.
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The 2024 Statistical Report is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' own official annual return, read at General Conference and published through its Newsroom, treated at the top tier as that primary institutional record of what the church itself counts and reports. NotesThe church's own annual report, read at General Conference. Recorded membership counts those baptised or blessed and not removed from the rolls, and exceeds census self-identification in several countries.
Citation
AuthorThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
PublisherThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication Year2025
URLhttps://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/2024-statistical-report
Source TypeOfficial statistical return
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Custodian BasisThe church own annual statistical report about itself. Authoritative for what it counts; it is not an independent demographic study.
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