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“Statistical Report 1982,” Ensign, May 1983, 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 31 December 1982. (Membership figures include estimates based on 1982 reports available prior to conference.)

Church Units

• Number of stakes 1,392

• Number of districts 336

• Number of missions 180

• Number of wards 8,888

• Number of branches in stakes 2,699

• Number of branches in missions 2,029

(These statistics reflect an increase of 71 stakes and 523 wards and branches during 1982.)

• Number of sovereign countries with organized wards or branches 89

• Number of territories, colonies, and possessions with organized wards or branches 16

Church Membership

• Total membership at the close of 1982 5,165,000

Church Growth during 1982

• Increase in children of record 124,000

• Children of record baptized 67,000

• Converts baptized 207,000

Social Statistics

• Birthrate per thousand 28.1

• Number of persons married per thousand 12.2

• Death rate per thousand 3.9

Priesthood

• Deacons 227,000

• Teachers 168,000

• Priests 325,000

• Elders 436,000

• Seventies 32,000

• High priests 180,000

Missionaries

• Full-time missionaries 26,300

Genealogical

• Names cleared in 1982 for temple endowments 2,462,700

Temples

Number of endowments performed during 1982:

• For the living 48,800

• For the dead 4,418,000

• Temples in operation 19

• Temples planned or under construction 22

• Temples closed during the year 1

Church Educational System

Total enrollment during 1981–82 school year:

• Seminaries and Institutes 320,500

• Church schools, colleges, universities 70,100

Welfare Services

• Persons assisted by LDS Social Services 83,700

• Persons placed in gainful employment 22,300

• Man-days of labor donated to welfare services 393,500

• Commodities distributed from storehouses in pounds 21,099,000

Prominent Members Who Passed Away Since Last April

President N. Eldon Tanner, First Counselor in the First Presidency; Elder LeGrand Richards, Member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles; John G. Lahaderne, president of the Italy Catania Mission; Charles R. Hansen, president of the California Oakland Mission; Terry Lavelle Crapo, Regional Representative; Lavere Arnold Ricks, Regional Representative; James David King, president of the Paradise Valley Arizona Stake; J. Spencer Cornwall, former conductor of the Tabernacle Choir; Bertha Reeder Richards, former general president of the Young Women’s MIA from 1948 to 1961; Percy K. Fetzer, patriarch and former temple, stake, and mission president; Monte L. Bean, prominent church leader and philanthropist; Dr. Albert Ray Olpin, former president of the University of Utah; Clare Middlemiss, personal secretary to President David O. McKay for thirty-five years; W. Creed Haymond, noted athlete and church leader; Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of the first artificial heart.