Church statistics
Membership, growth, baptisms and finance across the Adventist organisation worldwide.
Filed in this platform’s own records for 2025. Members sum all 13 divisions. Baptisms sum the 132 of 278 unions that filed one, covering 75% of world membership — a floor, not a total. Churches and countries count what this database holds, not the world.
“The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the fastest-growing Protestant denomination globally, adding over 1 million new members every year for the past decade. From 10 million members in 2000 to over 22 million today — that’s a church doubling in 23 years.”
How to use these statistics
Start with the big picture
Use membership, baptisms, growth and institutions to understand broad mission patterns before comparing local fields.
Compare with context
A number can point to growth, plateau, or data quality. Follow links into profiles and the ledger before drawing conclusions.
Look for stewardship questions
Statistics do not shame the church. They help us notice where God is blessing and where support, prayer, or attention may be needed.
Platform coverage and organisation levels
The church at a glance
Six figures counted from this platform’s own records, and the four levels of the organisation you can walk from here.
6,724 churches on file
Local congregations with a record in this collection, from official conference directories and trusted sources.
137 countries mapped
Countries where a unit or an institution carries a usable coordinate. The church itself reports 215+.
896 schools & universities
Education institutions on file — part of a worldwide network the church puts at 22,000+.
1,019 hospitals & clinics
Health institutions on file, with beds and staff as each one filed them.
1,399 organisational units
Divisions, unions, conferences, missions and fields — the whole tree the ledger below walks.
+683,677 members in 2025
Net change across all 13 divisions on the year before — the same filings the membership chart draws.
Global membership and baptisms
Membership is summed from this database — the 13 divisions' own filings, one per year. Baptisms remain the GC Office of Archives, Statistics & Research's published series.
Summed from the 13 divisions' own filings — every one of them reported in each of these 23 years, so no point on this line is short a division.
13 divisions, 23.8M filed
Read from the org-unit database, so this table and the ledger cannot disagree about the same division. Ordered by filed membership.
Every division on file
ordered by membership- 1East-Central AfricaECD6.00M+5.1%
- 2Southern Africa-Indian OceanSID4.54M+4.8%
- 3Inter-AmericanIAD3.73M-0.0%
- 4South AmericanSAD2.70M-0.2%
- 5Southern Asia-PacificSSD1.70M+5.0%
- 6North AmericanNAD1.32M+2.2%
- 7Southern AsiaSUD1.19M+1.2%
- 8West-Central AfricaWAD1.10M+5.9%
- 9South PacificSPD0.85M-0.7%
- 10Northern Asia-PacificNSD0.37M+2.2%
- 11Inter-EuropeanEUD0.19M+0.8%
- 12Trans-EuropeanTED0.09M+2.6%
- 13Euro-AsiaESD0.06M-1.7%
Compare and understand
Explore comparable reporting years and the context behind mission-support assessments.