Mormons and Americans in the 20th Century - A Response to Sailer

As Steve Sailer intuits, the end of polygamy led to a great number of other changes in Mormonism. Sailer asks why. I wrote a response, but after reading the much more insightful comments on Sailer's website, I deleted it. Sorry.

LDS Church Membership, 1997-2007

Recorded below are statistical data taken from the Annual (April) General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for each of the years 1997-2006, along with world population data for comparison.

Type	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
- - - - -	- - - - -	- - - - -	- - - - -	- - - - -	- - - - -
children born	75214	76829	84118	81450	69522
convert baptisms	317798	299134	306171	273973	292612
total membership	10070524	10354241	10752986	11068861	11394522
World Pop.	5836407692	5914520317	5991378568	6071675206	6147499951
% of world total (rounded)	0.1725	0.1750	0.1794	0.1823	0.1853

 

Type	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
- - - - -	- - - - -	- - - - -	- - - - -	- - - - -	- - - - -
children born	81132	99457	98870	93150	94006
convert baptisms	283138	242923	241239	243108	272845
total membership	11721548	11985254	12275822	12560869	12868606
World Pop.	6222515319	6297409158	6372892721	6449099710	6525521471
% of world total (rounded)	0.1883	0.1903	0.1926	0.1947	0.1972