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“Statistical Report 1987,” Ensign, May 1988, 20

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 December 31, 1987. (Membership figures include estimates based on 1987 reports available prior to conference.)

Church units

• Number of stakes 1,666

• Number of districts 379

• Number of missions 205

• Number of wards 10,907

• Number of branches in stakes 2,812

• Number of branches in missions 2,287

• Number of sovereign countries with organized wards or branches 97

• Number of territories, colonies, and possessions with organized wards or branches 25

(These statistics reflect an increase of 44 stakes and 617 wards and branches during 1987.)

Church membership

• Total membership at the close of 1987 6,440,000

Church growth during 1987

• Increase in children of record 99,000

• Children of record baptized 75,000

• Converts baptized 227,284

Missionaries

• Full-time missionaries 34,750

Prominent members who have passed away since last April

Elder Franklin D. Richards, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy; Camilla Eyring Kimball, widow of President Spencer W. Kimball; Elva Taylor Cowley, widow of Matthew Cowley, former member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Alexander Schreiner, Tabernacle organist for fifty-three years; Louise W. Madsen, former counselor in the General Relief Society Presidency.