https://www.thechurchnews.com/global/20 ... 0languages.At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 and early 2020, the Church counted some 69,000 young teaching and service missionaries and senior missionaries. The pandemic resulted in international closures and restriction and the resulting return of many missionaries — some released from service and others reassigned, mostly to home countries.
The number grew to 56,000 at the end of 2021, to 65,000 at the end of 2022, and to more than 72,000 today, which includes nearly 5,300 senior missionaries.
So as of November 2023
Full Time Missionaries = 66,700
Senior Missionaries = 5,300
Fast forward to April Conference where the figures for the end of 2023 are reported and the numbers become:
Full-Time Teaching Missionaries - 67,871
Senior Service Missionaries = 27,070
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.or ... statistics
That would be a total of 94,941 at the end of December 2023 against the total reported on November 1st 2023 of 72,000.
Or does the full time teaching missionary number of 67,871 include senior missionaries (as opposed to senior service missionaries)?
Can anyone make sense of these two sets of reported missionary numbers?