Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	11,149	11,880	+731 (6.6%)
Adherents	2,161,610	2,561,998	+400,388 (18.5%)

Year-by-Year

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1925	1,155	909	50,386
1929	1,641	1,612	91,981
1931	-	-	109,045
1933	-	2,562	136,705
1935	2,777	3,229	170,413
1937	-	3,580	197,228
1940	-	3,930	198,834
1942	-	4,840	222,730
1944	-	5,055	227,349
1946	-	-	241,782
1947	-	5,548	243,515
1950	6,225	5,950	318,478
1951	6,225	5,950	318,478
1952	7,600	6,362	370,118
1953	7,641	6,400	370,118
1954	7,942	7,170	400,000
1955	8,502	7,320	400,047
1956	8,747	7,916	470,361
1957	9,114	8,104	482,352
1958	9,316	8,088	505,552
1959	9,476	8,149	505,703
1960	9,504	8,233	508,602
1961	9,555	8,273	514,317
1962	9,872	8,302	514,532
1963	9,985	8,409	543,003
1964	10,237	8,452	555,992
1965	10,519	8,443	572,123
1966	11,168	8,506	576,058
1967	11,197	8,510	595,231
1969	11,459	8,570	626,660
1970	11,677	8,619	625,027
1971	11,912	8,734	1,064,631
1972	12,037	8,799	1,078,332
1973	12,087	8,871	1,099,606
1974	-	8,920	1,177,116
1975	12,810	9,019	1,239,197
1977	13,928	9,291	1,283,892
1978	14,415	9,410	1,293,394
1979	22,584	9,562	1,629,014
1980	23,246	9,773	1,732,371
1981	23,898	9,930	1,788,394
1982	24,498	10,173	1,879,182
1983	25,378	10,368	1,992,754
1984	25,986	10,582	2,036,453
1985	26,439	10,761	2,082,878
1986	26,837	10,886	2,135,104
1987	27,264	11,004	2,160,667
1988	30,552	11,123	2,147,041
1989	30,471	11,192	2,137,890
1990	30,524	11,353	2,181,502
1991	30,746	11,536	2,234,708
1992	30,893	11,689	2,257,846
1993	31,057	11,762	2,271,718
1994	31,300	11,764	2,324,615
1995	31,752	11,823	2,387,982
1996	32,314	11,884	2,467,588
1997	32,367	11,920	2,494,574
1998	32,337	11,937	2,525,812
1999	32,304	12,055	2,574,531
2000	32,310	12,084	2,577,560
2001	32,374	12,082	2,627,029
2002	32,556	12,133	2,687,366
2003	32,556	12,222	2,729,562
2004	33,036	12,277	2,779,095
2005	33,553	12,298	2,830,861
2006	33,622	12,311	2,836,174

Notes

Snapshot

Data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc.

Year-by-Year

Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]