Number of Parishioners
| Parishioners of the old-Prussian Church (Pop.) |
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|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1865 | 11,000,000 | — |
| 1890 | 14,900,000 | +35.5% |
| 1925 | 18,700,000 | +25.5% |
| 1933 | 19,500,000 | +4.3% |
| 1950 | 14,700,000 | −24.6% |
| 1990 | 9,262,000 | −37.0% |
| Note: In 1940 the church absorbed congregations located in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia previously belonging to the United Evangelical Church in Poland, and all the United Evangelical Church in Polish Upper Silesia with its 17 congregations. Note: As of 1945 many parishioners died during the Soviet conquest, then again many perished in the subsequent atrocities against Germans and their expulsion from eastern Germany. About one third of the parishioners was exiled, many stranded later outside the ambit of the church Source: See footnote |
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