Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	11,433	11,106	-327 (-2.9%)
Adherents	3,553,335	3,141,566	-411,769 (-11.6%)

Year-by-Year

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1983	18,880	11,596	3,122,213
1984	19,116	11,572	3,092,151
1985	19,345	11,554	3,048,235
1986	19,514	11,531	3,007,322
1987	19,840	11,513	2,967,781
1988	19,746	11,505	2,929,608
1989	20,078	11,469	2,886,482
1990	20,338	11,501	3,788,009
1991	20,357	11,468	3,778,358
1992	20,527	11,456	3,758,085
1993	20,585	11,501	3,796,766
1994	20,624	11,399	3,698,136
1995	20,640	11,361	3,669,489
1996	20,783	11,328	3,637,375
1997	20,858	11,295	3,610,753
1998	20,940	11,260	3,574,959
1999	20,988	11,216	3,561,184
2000	21,065	11,178	3,485,332
2001	21,150	11,142	3,455,952
2002	21,194	11,097	3,407,329
2003	21,248	11,064	3,241,309
2004	21,287	11,019	3,189,573
2006	21,360	11,903	3,025,740

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]