Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	10,912	10,739	-173 (-1.6%)
Adherents	5,226,798	5,113,418	-113,380 (-2.2%)

Year-by-Year

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1987	17,052	11,133	5,288,230
1988	16,083	11,120	5,251,534
1989	17,246	11,067	5,238,798
1990	17,402	11,087	5,240,739
1991	17,426	11,074	5,245,177
1992	17,416	11,055	5,234,568
1993	17,455	11,023	5,212,785
1994	17,322	10,973	5,199,048
1995	17,425	10,955	5,190,489
1996	17,402	10,936	5,180,910
1997	17,510	10,889	5,185,055
1998	17,589	10,862	5,178,225
1999	17,611	10,851	5,149,668
2000	17,651	10,816	5,125,919
2001	17,693	10,766	5,099,877
2002	17,706	10,721	5,038,006
2003	17,666	10,657	4,984,925
2004	17,725	10,585	4,930,429
2005	17,665	10,549	4,850,776
2006	17,655	10,470	4,774,203

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]