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What are the countries with the most Latter-day Saints?

When the Church was first organized on April 6, 1830, there were six members of the Church. Now, 191 years later, there are 16,663,663 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world in 31,136 congregations, according to the Church’s 2020 statistics.

This chart shows the 30 countries with the most members of the Church.

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