On April 6, 1830, the Church was organized with just six members in Fayette, New York. As far as the highest percentage of Mormons in Eastern Europe is concerned, both Bulgaria and Ukraine can claim 0.03 percent of their population as Mormon. The lowest number of Mormons is found in New Jersey where they make up only 0.37% of the total population. The people are Protestant, 45 percent; LDS, 28 percent; and Roman Catholic, 20 percent. A stake was organized in Apia on 18 March 1962 with Percy J. Rivers as president. The total population is 73,376 with a Mormon population of 7,446 and Mormon membership percentage of 10.15. German control ended in 1914. The population of The Federal States of Micronesia is 104,196 with a Mormon population of 6,217 and a Mormon membership percentage of 5.97. Schools were the most important missionary tools of the Church. American Samoa is an American territory comprised of seven islands and atolls located in the South Pacific with a population of 51,504 and with a Church membership reaching 16,339 and a Mormon percentage of 31.72. In 1899, the Samoan islands were divided between Germany and the United States. Kimo Pelia and Samuela Manoa had been sent by an apostate leader, Walter Murray Gibson. The data was collated by a Colorado researcher Matt Martinich who has been studying the Latter-day Saints Church growth since 2002. The growth that came during these years was founded on significant advancements in Church organization and administration, education, and meetinghouse construction.
Missionaries returned to Samoa in 1946. There are an estimated 14,784 Mormons in American Samoa -- where only … Thousands of marines were stationed on Tutuila and Upolu during World War II. Figures show that 60 percent of the kingdom's inhabitants are listed as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (By contrast, Latter-day Saints make up about 2 percent of the U.S. Eastern Samoa became and remains a U.S. territory, of which Tutuila is the primary island. Cook Islands: 19.84 percent. A native named Polonga, was called as the first local missionary. The number of baptisms performed by them was never recorded (but ranged between 50 and 200). In 1891, King Siaosi (George) Tupou was visited by the first Latter-day Saint missionaries to arrive on the shores of Tonga and gave them permission to preach. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has had an official presence in Tonga for well over a century. The year 1938 marked the 50 anniversary of missionary work in Samoa. Chile, Uruguay, and several areas in the South Pacific have a higher percentage of Mormons than the United States (which is at about 2 percent). The use of lantern slide shows about the Church and a record player were used to attract attention and open the way to teach the gospel in villages that had been closed to missionaries before. "Mr Tukuafu's stake has more than 2,000 members on record. But did you know that the multi-island Pacific nation has the highest number of Latter-day Saints per capita in the world?Of Tonga's 106,513 inhabitants, 64,156 are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to the Salt Lake City-based faith's That constitutes about 60 percent of the populace, independent Mormon demographer Matt Martinich told "It's more like about 20 percent because about two-thirds of the members of the church in Tonga don't regularly attend church," the Colorado-based Martinich said, "or they identify with some other religious group even though their names are still on the church records. The country with the most Mormons, however, is by far the United Kingdom, which has over four times as many Mormons as any other European country, with a total of 186,852 and a percentage of 0.39.The United Arab Emirates has both the most Mormons and highest percentage of Latter-day Saints in the Middle East, with 1,555 of the population of 6,072,675 people belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2017, and information in the article may be outdated. The pair labored faithfully for nearly 20 years without the support of the Church. President Gordon B. Hinckley visited Savai’i on 12 October 1997, where he spoke to 4,000 members and met with Samoa’s Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana. At the turn of the century, missionary work was made difficult by internal political conflicts. Mormons in Utah account for 67.70% of its population. Worldwide, there are over 16 million members (April 2018) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, as they are commonly known, about the same as the number of Jews.. Only the mission president and his wife, Wilford W. and Hannahbel Emery, remained.