Comments on: World

By: rickety

rickety — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:41:57 +0000

I went through every almanac. After I looked in one the rest followed the same format so the process became faster. There are two more years to add when two more almanacs are delivered. I will then have the complete set except for 1978. That means that similar plots could be made for other countries.

Also LDS growth versus general population growth.

By: Jonathen

Jonathen — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:19:18 +0000

Thank you very much for taking the time to put this together; are all the data points for past years available in the 2010 almanac, or did you have to go through the past ones to get the previous years’ information?

And just as you suspected, Japan itself is facing the giant problem of a shrinking / aging society because of a small number of childbirths (少子高齢化社会 as they refer to it), amongst other issues.

By: rickety

rickety — Sat, 22 May 2010 06:14:25 +0000

I have put together a chart and table, a little ahead of schedule, at http://www.rickety.us/lds/japan/

There are two more data points to add but the chart as it stands gives a good idea of the LDS growth in Japan. It looks to be leveling off of late though. I haven’t checked but I suspect that Japanese population growth as a whole may also be slowing.

By: Jonathen

Jonathen — Sat, 22 May 2010 01:46:34 +0000

Thank you very much; I live out in the middle of nowhere, and I doubt that any local libraries would carry the almanacs, so your posting of such numbers would be much appreciated!

By: rickety

rickety — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:33:31 +0000

I did some research and I found I could obtain locally most almanacs back to the first edition of 1974. As I have been intending to secure the missing editions for some time, I went ahead and purchased them this morning. Two of the almanacs that were not available locally I ordered online. The remaining 1978 almanac I cannot find.

In a week or so I will be able to post some numbers.

By: rickety

rickety — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:44:33 +0000

These are the Almanacs that I own:
1987
2001-2002 (this is when the Almanac was published every two years)
2003 to 2010 (published every year)

So I could go back ten years that’s all.

By: Jonathen

Jonathen — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:28:02 +0000

In the same vein as the other Japan inquiry goes, I would be very interested to see a graph like the ones you made for the US and Canada for Japan over the past few decades. Do you have access to such information in the almanacs? If making a graph would be troublesome, even a simple list of the number of members there during such a timeline would be fun to see. (I am an RM from Japan, thus the interest in that particular country.)

Thank for putting this together, by the way – it was very interesting to see how much the church is growing, and where for that matter!

By: rickety

rickety — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:03:01 +0000

In 1854 an LDS missionary was sent to Thailand. The Thailand District was organized in 1966. In 1973, Thailand became its own mission. In 1974 the first meetinghouse was built. So Mormons have been in Thailand a lot longer than many other countries.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:56:18 +0000

More members than I’d have thought in Thailand also!

By: rickety

rickety — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:26:17 +0000

Not that I know of. The names of the 29 stakes are by geographical area so I could post the names of the stakes if you wish. That would give you some idea where the members are located.