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“Statistical Report 1985,” Ensign, May 1986, 19

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 1985. (Membership figures include estimates based on 1985 reports available prior to conference.)

Church Units

• Number of stakes 1,582

• Number of districts 352

• Number of missions 188

• Number of wards 10,168

• Number of branches in stakes 2,766

• Number of branches in missions 2,071

• Number of sovereign countries with organized wards or branches 95

• Number of territories, colonies, and possessions with organized wards or branches 20

(These statistics reflect an increase of 75 stakes and 542 wards and branches during 1985.)

Church Membership

• Total membership at the close of 1985 5,920,000

Church Growth during 1985

• Increase in children of Record 95,000

• Children of record baptized 70,000

• Converts baptized 197,640

Priesthood

• Deacons 248,000

• Teachers 186,000

• Priests 375,000

• Elders 481,000

• Seventies 33,000

• High Priests 208,000

Missionaries

• Full-time Missionaries 29,265

Genealogical Data

• Names cleared in 1985 for temple endowments 10,552,130

Temples

Number of endowments performed during 1985:

• For the dead 4,857,052

• For the living 54,554

• For the dead 4,857,052

• Temples in operation 37

• Temples planned or under construction 10

• Temples closed during the year for renovation 1

Five temples were dedicated and one rededicated in 1985.

Church Educational System

Total enrollment during 1984–85 school year:

• Seminaries and Institutes, including special programs 349,827

• Church schools and colleges 45,558

• Continuing education 366,257

Welfare Services

• Persons assisted by LDS Social Services 82,804

• Persons placed in gainful employment 34,552

• Man-days of labor donated to Welfare Services 244,766

• Bishop’s orders from storehouses 344,562

Prominent Members Who Have Passed Away Since Last April

President Spencer W. Kimball, twelfth President of the Church, at age ninety, on November 5, 1985; Elder Bruce R. McConkie, a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles; Norma P. Anderson, wife of Elder Joseph Anderson; Dorothy C. Stone, wife of Elder O. Leslie Stone; and Richard P. Condie, director of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir for seventeen years.