2000-2010 US LDS growth at 45%

The LDS Church membership in the United States grew at an amazing rate during the first decade of this century.  The Association of Religion Data Archives conducted their census and reported that religious adherents to established churches dropped (1.83% from 2000 to 2010)  Bucking the trend were Mormons and Muslims.  The LDS church grew at a rate of 45% over the decade, growing from slightly over 4 Million members to now 6.5 Million adherents in the United States alone.  Worldwide the LDS church counts 14.5 Million members over the age of 8.  The US is now over 2% LDS.

http://www.thearda.com/rcms2010/rcms2010.asp?U=99&T=US&S=Name&Y=2010

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Association of Religion Data Archives	(ARDA)	2010
Religious Bodies	Tradition	Family	Adherents	Adherent Change	%Change (2000)
Catholic Church	Catholic	Catholicism	58,936,006	(3,106,055)	-5.01%
Southern Baptist Convention	Protestant	Baptist	28,760,401	(577,442)	-1.97%
Non-denominational	Evangelical Protestant	----	12,241,329	0	0.00%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	Methodist/Pietist	12,231,451	(263,031)	-2.11%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	Lutheran	7,191,194	(1,204,535)	-14.35%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other	Latter-day Saints	6,267,771	1,944,871	44.99%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	Pentecostal	5,779,641	635,210	12.35%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	Presbyterian-Reformed	5,037,602	(1,140,570)	-18.46%
Buddhism, Hindu, Muslim	Other	Other Groups	4,428,558	1,059,964	31.47%
Church of God & Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	Holiness	2,364,004	(71,079)	-2.92%
Judaism	Other	Judaism	2,256,584	0	0.00%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	Episcopalianism/ Anglicanism	1,951,907	(362,849)	-15.68%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	Adventist	1,198,838	270,867	29.19%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1,054,915	3,666	0.35%
Amish & Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	European Free-Church	767,249	(34,388)	-4.29%
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other	Christian Science	501,553	0	0.00%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other	Liberal	211,606	28,908	15.82%
*Includes Bodies w/over 1,000 members			150,680,209	(2,816,463)	-1.83%