Membership Statistics
The conference has more than 1,500 members, whose congregations in 2011 included 46,451 (or 83%) of the 55,944 women religious in the United States. The membership of LCWR is confined to the women who are the superiors, or leaders, of their respective congregations; it is a consortium of executives rather than as an organization of representatives of religious women generally.
The membership of the congregations in the LCWR declined rapidly in the early 21st century, both through a lack of any new members in most member congregations and the increasing age of the women who remain. According to the Study on Recent Vocations, the average median age of women in LCWR institutes is 74. Among those who entered since 1994, 56% were over 30 by 2009. For these reasons, the membership of the congregations in the LCWR declined from 60,642 in 2007, to 46,451 in 2011, to an estimated 43,664 in 2012.
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