John L. Hart's Over Half LDS Now Outside U.S., Church News, 2 March 1996, reports the membership milestone reached in late February 1996: 4,720,000 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members living outside the United States against 4,719,000 within, the point at which the international church first outnumbered the domestic one, drawing on the church's own membership statistics.
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The church's own affiliated newspaper reporting a specific, dated statistical milestone drawn from the church's own membership records; a first-party institutional report of a countable fact rather than an independent scholarly analysis. NotesUsed for the February 1996 milestone at which Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership outside the United States first exceeded membership within it.
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AuthorJohn L. Hart
PublisherChurch News
Publication Year1996
URLhttps://www.thechurchnews.com/1996/3/2/23254317/over-half-lds-now-outside-u-s/
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