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Buffalo wrote:The church leadership is like those missionaries we all knew who grossly inflated their numbers so to get approval and leadership positions in the mission. The 15 are those kind of douchebags, all growed up.

Melchett wrote:Time to count ze faithful.....



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LDS Church Growth, Member Activity, and Convert Retention: Review and Analysis
Chapter IV-08: Latin America
Mexico, Brazil, and Chile were the countries with the second, third, and fourth largest LDS populations a in the world at the time the censuses were conducted, although Brazil has since overtaken Mexico for the number two spot. The inclusion of religious affiliation data on the national censuses in these nations and several others is highly significant and provides a crucial window into the state of the LDS Church in nations were only limited data is available.

2000 Mexican Census
The 2000 Mexican census found that 205,229 Mexicans age five and above identified the LDS Church as their faith of preference, compared to nearly 850,000 members in Mexico claimed by the Church at the time. This group included 94,132 men and 111,097 women, and included 23,851 of both sexes age 5 to 9, 26,875 age 10-14, 27,267 age 15-19, 23,128 age 20-24, 20,276 age 25-29, 17,602 age 30-34, 15,836 age 35-39, 13,766 age 40-44, 9,915 age 45-49, and 26,713 age 50 and above. The age distribution of LDS members closely parallels the age demographics of Mexican society as a whole. There are slightly more females in the self-identified LDS population (54%) than in the Mexican population as a whole (51.5%), with gender parity between age 5 and 14 but with women holding a slight preponderance among all other age groups.

2000 Brazilian Census
The 2000 Brazilian census reported that 199,645 individuals identified the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as their faith of preference, or 26.8 percent of the 743,182 claimed by the Church at year-end 1999. The Brazilian census recorded religious affiliation for children of all ages as well as adults. The LDS cohort included 92,197 males (46.2%) and 107,448 females (53.8%), with a skew towards urban areas: only 2.2% of the LDS respondents (4,446) lived in rural areas, compared to 18.8% of the overall population.

2002 Chilean Census
The 2002 Chilean census reported that 103,735 Chileans over age fifteen (0.92 percent of the population) identified themselves as Mormons or Latter-day Saints. In spite of strong encouragement from the pulpit to LDS members to identify their religious affiliation on the census, this number represents fewer than 20 percent of the 520,202 individuals claimed on official LDS membership rolls. Individuals under age fifteen (who were not asked for religious affiliation) represented 25.7 percent of the Chilean population. As for the population of youth ages fifteen to twenty-nine, 1.1 percent identify themselves as Latter-day Saints, compared to only 0.5 percent of the population over age 75.

ldsfaqs wrote:Most who are inactive haven't actually left the Church either intellectually or literally.