Year-by-Year (Click on a point to see data)

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1925	1,949	2,076	202,992
1929	2,012	2,111	212,886
1931	-	-	203,764
1933	-	2,024	221,119
1935	1,977	2,057	225,055
1937	-	1,890	224,457
1940	-	2,010	244,278
1942	-	1,983	248,475
1944	-	1,994	255,881

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]