Comparative Statistics 1998
Research Services
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

	1998	1997	1996	1995	1994	1993	1992	1991	1990	1989	1988
Number of Congregations	11,260	11,295	11,328	11,361	11,399	11,416	11,456	11,468	11,501	11,537	11,573
Reported Membership	2,587,674	2,609,191	2,631,466	2,665,276	2,698,262	2,742,192	2,780,406	2,814,8211	2,856,713	2,895,706	2,938,830
Mean Number of Members Per Congregation	230	231	232	235	237	240	243	245	248	251	254
Median Number of Members Per Congregation	123	124	126	128	130	132	134	135	137	139	141
Net Change in Membership	-21,517	-22,275	-33,810	-32,986	-43,930	-38,214	-34,415	-41,892	-38,993	-43,124	-38,107
Percent Change in Membership	-0.83	-0.85	-1.3	-1.2	-1.6	-1.4	-1.3	-1.5	-1.4	-1.5	-1.3
Churches Organized1	46	32	432	28	41	21	35	41	32	33	51
Churches Merged	44	8	26	30	26	12	29	35	29	23	28
Churches Resulting from Mergers	23	4	13	16	14	6	14	18	14	12	14
Churches Dissolved	45	61	50	51	43	49	32	41	40	47	49
Churches Dismissed	3	2	0	1	3	6	0	16	13	11	5
New Church Developments3	16	23	17	23	25	28	45	-	-	-	-

1 Includes Churches Resulting from Mergers, but not New Church Developments. 2 Revised. 3 New Church Developments are churches that are being developed but have not yet been organized. No data were available prior to 1992.