Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

Since the Book of Mormon’s publication in 1830, more than 83 million copies have been circulated throughout the world. That figure includes individual copies as well as triple and quadruple scripture combinations and Book of Mormon selections translated into other languages. In the year-by-year chart that follows, the quantity for 1830–1981 is an estimate based on the best historical information available.

1830–1981:	27,249,193
1982:	1,150,724
1983:	974,439
1984:	1,212,053
1985:	2,017,527
1986:	3,178,727
1987:	3,319,556
1988:	3,966,380
1989:	5,325,096
1990:	6,558,383
1991:	4,701,080
1992:	4,953,719
1993:	4,511,430
1994:	3,791,580
1995:	4,958,182
1996:	5,289,927
Total:	83,157,996

Note: In 1987 President Ezra Taft Benson urged Church members to “flood the earth with the Book of Mormon” (Ensign, May 1987, 85).