Snapshot

	1990^*	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	n.a.	89	--
Adherents	n.a.	91,513	--

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

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1925	28	78	86,000
1929	35	74	92,000
1937	-	52	108,000
1965	34	32	125,000
1968	34	32	125,000
1969	25	33	125,000
1970	37	34	125,000
1972	34	29	125,000
1984	23	27	225,000
1985	23	27	225,000
1986	19	18	-
1990	29	30	180,000
1991	29	28	150,000
1992	27	32	150,000
1995	58	28	180,000
1997	28	28	200,000
1998	31	28	200,000
2000	46	36	360,000
2002	44	34	360,000
2003	44	34	360,000
2004	47	33	360,000
2005	48	35	360,000
2006	46	38	360,000
2007	47	36	360,000
2008	45	36	350,000

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.

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]