Statistical Report 1994
For the information of the members of the Church, the First Presidency has issued the following statistical report concerning the growth and status of the Church as of 31 December 1994. (The statistics are based on 1994 reports available prior to this conference.)
Church Units
Stakes |
2,008 |
Districts |
709 |
Missions |
303 |
Wards and Branches |
21,774 |
Nations and territories with organized wards or branches |
156 |
Church Membership
Total membership |
9,024,569 |
Eight-year-old children of record baptized during 1994 |
72,538 |
Converts baptized during 1994 |
300,730 |
Missionaries
Full-time missionaries |
47,311 |
Prominent Members Who Have Passed Away since Last April
President Ezra Taft Benson, thirteenth President of the Church, at age 94, on 30 May 1994; President Howard W. Hunter, fourteenth President of the Church, at age 87, on 3 March 1995; Elder Clinton L. Cutler, member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy; Elder Sterling W. Sill, emeritus General Authority; Eudora Widtsoe Durham, widow of Elder G. Homer Durham, former member of the Presidency of the Seventy; Weston Eugene Hamilton, member of the General Church Finance Committee; Oakley S. Evans, former president of the Tabernacle Choir.