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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/Nehor2023 on 2025-07-16 22:53:53+00:00.

The church is boasting a surge in convert baptisms this year, but when you really dig into the numbers, it’s not impressive. Over the past ten years, the church added about 214,000 members each year. (I made this simple calculation by taking 2024 total membership minus 2014 total membership and dividing it by 10 years.) Earth’s population grows by 235,000 each DAY based on an estimated 385,000 births per day minus 150,000 deaths per day. So the earth’s population adds more people in one day that the Mormon church does in a year.

I’m also pretty sure church activity rate worldwide is no more than 25%, so of 17,500,000 members on the rolls, 4,375,000 are active. That means that if a sold-out Delta Center represented the human population of earth, there would be 10 active LDS in that 20,000 arena!