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There are Mormons outside America?
by HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
There are Mormons outside America?
- dmoy 3y agoYes, in fact a majority of Mormons are outside the USA
- elmomle 3y agoThey go on missions, very frequently outside of America, as a standard part of their early adult life. Learning the local language is pretty much a requirement.
- bozhark 3y agoIt’s not spreading though.
- sdsd 3y agoI live in a small town in Guatemala and the mormon church here is growing very rapidly. According to Google, they're growing at 1.5% annually, which means 255,036 new Mormons every year. However, a church with even a hundred people can heavily sway a small, remote community. I agree it's not "spreading" per se, but their numbers are respectable among proselytizing religions today. When Islam reached a 1.8% growth rate in the 2000s we were inundated with proclamations that it was the fastest growing religion in the world (eg: https://foreignpolicy.com/2007/05/14/the-list-the-worlds-fastest-growing-religions/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2007/05/14/the-list-the-worlds-fas...).
- bobthepanda 3y agoIn some places it is more effective than others; Mormons are very present in the Pacific islands, for example.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoI know that they go on missions. My question was regarding the "Mormon-American" framing which suggests that Mormonism exists in other countries, which I was not aware of.
- astura 3y agoVery much so, in fact, more Mormons live outside of the US than within the US. The church reports a population of 16,663,663 with 6,592,195 of those living within the US. (got those numbers from Wikipedia). This article from 10 years ago reports that 56% of Mormon live outside the US and Canada at that time- https://www.deseret.com/2013/8/30/20524833/the-majority-of-mormons-live-outside-the-us https://www.deseret.com/2013/8/30/20524833/the-majority-of-m...
- tomrod 3y agoYes and no. It's very minor outside of the US except for some island nations in the Pacific. Mormon membership numbers of actual adherents are likely 20% to 40% of membership claimed based on "inactivity" rates (and people leaving).
- RajT88 3y agoI learned about the pacific island nations, after I learned that the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii is owned and operated by the LDS Church. Samoa is a big one I guess.
- myko 3y agoIt was a jarring experience going to see a luau there and seeing white kids playing the main roles in their show. Pretty terrible place, really.
- yardie 3y agoBig church right in the middle of Paris. On prime, riverside real estate. That can't be cheap and last time I passed by it was missionaries and exchange students coming in and out.
- whymauri 3y agoCentral America is their largest growing sector IIRC.
- joker_minmax 3y agoMost of the Mormons at my (US) high school were Mexican immigrants to the US, anecdotally.