How to read rankings · 2025
Compare public mission patterns without turning people into a scoreboard.
Rankings help you spot patterns in membership, growth and share of the world church. Start with the level that matches your question, then open a profile for context before drawing conclusions.
Ranked divisions
13
Members represented
23.83M
Reported for 2025
13
Average growth
+2.1%
Growth: recent statistical direction; context still matters.
Share: membership measured against the world church, not against this list.
Best use: find mission data patterns and reporting gaps, not whom to blame.
Click a column heading to rank by it. Divisions with nothing filed keep their place at the foot of the table, whichever way it is sorted.
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Trend
1East-Central Africa DivisionECD
6.00M+5.1%+5.8%25.2%2Southern Africa-Indian Ocean DivisionSID
4.54M+4.8%+1.4%19.1%3Inter-American DivisionIAD
3.73M-0.0%+0.3%15.6%4South American DivisionSAD
2.70M-0.2%+1.0%11.3%5Southern Asia-Pacific DivisionSSD
1.70M+5.0%+0.1%7.1%6North American DivisionNAD
1.32M+2.2%+0.8%5.5%7Southern Asia DivisionSUD
1.19M+1.2%+0.9%5.0%8West-Central Africa DivisionWAD
1.10M+5.9%+4.7%4.6%9South Pacific DivisionSPD
849,875-0.7%—3.6%10Northern Asia-Pacific DivisionNSD
369,714+2.2%—1.6%11Inter-European DivisionEUD
185,244+0.8%+0.7%0.78%12Trans-European DivisionTED
94,869+2.6%+1.4%0.40%13Euro-Asia DivisionESD
56,349-1.7%—0.24%The three largest divisions hold 60% of the membership filed at this level.