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Facts and Statistics

Updated on 31 December 2012

Nicaragua

Click here for the Church’s Nicaragua Newsroom site

 

The first missionaries arrived in Nicaragua in 1953. The first convert was baptized the following year. In September 1978, civil war forced missionaries to leave the area. Work resumed in the late 1980s. In 1987, a group of Church members traveled by bus to visit the Guatemala City Temple.

Membership was approximately 3,500 when the Nicaragua Managua Mission was organized in October 1989. Membership increased to 8,000 by December 1990. In the past five years, membership in Nicaragua has more than doubled.

 

For Journalist Use Only

Julio Alvarado
Guatemala City,
Guatemala
Phone:  502-2339-0606, ext. 2410
E-mail

 

Total Church Membership 80,605
Missions 2
Congregations 102

Statistics for North America

Total Church Membership 8,689,209
Missions 157
Congregations 17,600
Temples 95
Family History Centers 2,317

Worldwide Statistics

Total Church Membership 14,782,473
Missions 347
Missionaries 58,990
Missionary Training Centers 15
Temples 141
Congregations 29,014
Universities & Colleges 4
Seminary Students Enrollment 391,680
Institute Student Enrollment 352,488
Family History Centers 4,689
Countries with Family History Centers 128
Church Materials Languages 177