Demography
The Church has reported having over five million members worldwide in the year 2000 with 1.5 million in Mexico. The Mexican census, however, reported about 70,000 members nationwide in 2001. In light of the letters and talks made by the Apostle of God. In 2010 another Mexican census reported a total of 188,326 members. Anthropologist Hugo G. Nutini estimated the size of the church to be at around 1,125,000 members in the year 2000 in Mexico. The US State Department International Religious Freedom Report for 2011 states that, "Official statistics sometimes differ from membership figures of religious groups." Anthropologist Ávila Meléndez says that the membership numbers reported by La Luz del Mundo are pausible given the great interest it has generated among "religious authorities" and the following it receives in Mexico.
In El Salvador, as of 2009, there are an estimated 70,000 members of La Luz del Mundo with 140 congregations with a minister and 160 other congregations that range from 13 to 80 members. As of 2008 there was an estimated 60,000 members of La Luz del Mundo in the United States.
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