Seventh-day Adventist Church World Statistics for 2025

This interactive atlas presents membership statistics of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for 2025, from the 2026 Annual Statistical Report (Advance Release) published by the Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. At the end of 2025 the church reported 24,372,139 members worldwide, 106,936 organized churches, and 78,061 companies. During 2025 there were 1,287,461 baptisms (including baptisms of former members) and 1,321,469 total accessions. The church's 13 world divisions and the fields attached to the General Conference comprise 153 unions and 839 conferences, missions, and fields, serving a combined population of about 8.14 billion people — roughly one Adventist member for every 334 people.

Statistics by division, 2025

DivisionMembers (end of 2025)ChurchesTotal accessionsAdventist presence
Attached to GC538,1321,9576,9041 in 3,826
East-Central Africa5,995,83922,282346,8981 in 89
Euro-Asia56,3499518931 in 5,269
Inter-American3,728,67417,023157,2821 in 83
Inter-European185,2442,5123,4641 in 1,861
North American1,316,6285,82243,0521 in 290
Northern Asia-Pacific369,7141,2218,8781 in 1,908
South American2,700,22416,173199,5271 in 131
South Pacific849,7542,57315,8281 in 54
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean4,542,51416,277305,2891 in 53
Southern Asia1,194,3204,60430,4261 in 1,216
Southern Asia-Pacific1,700,2758,726129,3631 in 409
Trans-European94,8691,1752,7621 in 2,169
West-Central Africa1,099,3125,63770,9031 in 475

Division boundaries reflect the October 2023 territorial realignment, under which Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka joined the Northern Asia-Pacific Division. Baptism figures combine baptisms of new and former members. Population figures are World Bank 2024 estimates. The interactive sections of this page allow exploration by division and by country, including searchable statistics for all 839 reporting entities.

2026 Annual Statistical Report  ·  Membership data for 2025

A statistical atlas of the Adventist world.

Six continents. Thirteen divisions. One hundred and fifty-three unions. Eight hundred and thirty-nine conferences, missions, and field stations. A body of more than twenty-four million believers serving a world of eight billion souls.

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The church, geographically.

The world church is organized into thirteen divisions covering distinct geographic regions, plus several fields attached directly to the General Conference. View the map by division, by Adventist density, or country by country — in the Countries view, click any nation to see the figures reported by the entities serving it.

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Adventist members per 100,000 inhabitants — by country · uncolored countries have no country-specific figures in the report
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A view of each division.

Each division serves a distinct part of the world with its own history, needs, and context. The default view shows each division's profile side by side; toggle to a comparative view if helpful for analysis.

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Presence among the people.

Each division serves a region with its own population, history, and spiritual landscape. This view expresses membership as "one in N people" — the kind of figure missionaries have used for generations to describe both the gathered church and the field still ahead.

Every figure here represents both a calling answered and a calling that remains. A division where 1 in 50 people is an Adventist is not "winning"; it is a community of faith embedded in a particular place. A division where 1 in 5,000 is an Adventist is not "behind"; it is a great work of patient witness in a vast field.

Each navy figure represents about 1 Adventist member per 5,000 people in the region Open figures represent neighbors yet to encounter the church
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Explore any field, mission, or conference.

Search by name, filter by division, and sort by any column. Click a row to see a full breakdown of additions, subtractions, and growth metrics for that entity.

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