Also In This Series:

Total Membership, 1993-2007

Rate of Membership Growth/Decline, 1994-2006

Growing to Non-Growing Church Ratio, 1998-2007

U.S./Non-U.S. Membership and Church Ratio, 1994-2006

Largest Ten-Year Membership Gains, 1996-2006

Fastest Growing Churches, Post-2002

Clarifications and Caveats

Rate of Membership Growth/Decline, 1994-2006

Although membership losses after 2002 were unprecedented, this chart shows how they were the continuation of a trend that had been in effect for almost a decade.

Membership continued to decline in 2005 and 2006, but the change in the rate of growth/decline reversed direction for the first two-year period since 1996.

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