Church of The Nazarene - Statistics

Statistics

At the end of September 2011, the Church of the Nazarene had 2,136,122 members (a net increase of 76,861 members or 3.7 percent gain from the previous year). In the previous year there were 157,003 new members of the Church of the Nazarene. Membership in the United States and Canada in 2011 was 663,901 (an increase of 526 or 0.08% in the past year), and only 1.2% in the previous decade, the largest of any nation (31.04% of the total church membership). The largest number of Nazarenes in other nations are Haiti with about 116,000 members, Bangladesh (65,000), and India with 59,039 members. There are more total members outside the U.S.A. and Canada with 1,395,886 church members in non-USA and Canada regions. In 2010, 173,204 new Nazarenes was reported, a record gain. Most of that growth took place outside of the U.S.A. and Canada (108,149 net increase in church members in 2009). The denomination has the highest percentage presence in the nations of Cape Verde (where its members constitute 2.5% of the population); Samoa (1.88% of the population); Haiti (1.28% of the population); Barbados (1.0% of the population); and Swaziland (0.96% of the population). In 2000 there was the highest percentage of Nazarene presence in the USA, with 2.25 members for every 1,000 US people (0.25%). According to the Board of General Superintendents in December 2009, "an average of 455 people came to Christ and joined the Church of the Nazarene every day last year".

In 2011 there were 19,254 organized churches (an increase of 727 from the previous year), and 8,270 church-type missions (an increase of 444 from the previous year) for a total of 27,524 local churches around the world (a net increase of 1,171 from the previous year). In 2011 a total of 1,171 new churches was organized. During 2011, an average of 1,439,361 people attended worship services in the Church of the Nazarene around the world each week (an increase of 58,591 or 4.2% from the previous year).

During 2010, the total amount of money paid for all purposes by Nazarenes was US$898.313 million (a decrease of US$40.659 million). Worldwide per capita giving was US$436.23 (a decrease of $46.40 from the previous year).