Editing Seventh-day Adventist Church (section)

===Membership===
[[File:Seventh-day Adventist Church membership.svg|upright=1.4|left|thumb|Seventh-day Adventist Church membership from 1863 to 2022]]The Seventh-day Adventist Church is one of the world's fastest-growing organizations, primarily from membership increases in [[Developing country|developing nations]]. Today much of the church membership reside outside of the United States, with large numbers in [[Africa]], [[Asia]] and [[Latin America]].<ref name=roil/> Every 30.33 seconds a new member is baptized into one of the 13 divisions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.<ref name=study/>
 
In 2006, over 25 million people worshiped weekly in Seventh-day Adventist churches around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://haaretz.com/2006-02-10/ty-article/seventh-day-adventist-church-holds-first-jewish-friendship-conference-here/0000017f-e9cf-d639-af7f-e9df33d70000|title=Seventh-Day Adventist Church Holds First Jewish Friendship Conference Here|last=Berman|first=Daphna|date=2006-02-10|website=[[Haaretz]]|access-date=2022-09-26}}</ref> In 2011, it was reported that the Seventh-day Adventist Church was the fastest-growing church in the United States. Released data showed the membership growing by 2.5% in North America, a rapid clip for that part of the world, where many Christian denominations are declining.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2011-03-18-Adventists_17_ST_N.htm?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d8411c34c812859%2C0|title=Adventists' back-to-basics faith is fastest growing U.S. church| first= G. Jeffrey|last=MacDonald|date=March 17, 2011|publisher=[[USA Today]]}}</ref> On the church’s 150th anniversary in April 2013, there were over 17,000,000 members.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://religionnews.com/2013/04/10/as-they-turn-150-adventists-still-pray-for-the-apocalypse/|title=As they turn 150, Adventists still pray for the apocalypse|last=Burke|first=Daniel|date=2013-04-10|website=[[Religion News Service]]|access-date=2022-09-23}}</ref> In 2013, it was reported that the church lost one in three members over a fifty year period. For every 100 people the church gains, it loses 43 members. The reason why people leave the church is because of [[Divorce|marital issues]] and [[unemployment]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://christianitytoday.com/news/2013/december/seventh-day-adventists-assess-why-1-in-3-members-leave-sda.html|title=Adventists Assess Why 1 in 3 Members Leave the Church|last=Tracy|first=Kate|date=2013-12-09|website=[[Christianity Today]]|access-date=2022-09-21}}</ref> In 2015, the church was the most racially diverse denomination in the United States. The ratio was 37 percent [[White people|white]], 32 percent black, 15 percent [[Hispanic]], 8 percent [[Asian people|Asian]] and 8 percent another or mixed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/27/the-most-and-least-racially-diverse-u-s-religious-groups/|title=The most and least racially diverse U.S. religious groups|last=Lipka|first=Michael|website=[[Pew Research Center]]|date=July 27, 2015 |access-date=2022-09-23}}</ref> In 2017, the church had members in almost every country and territory in the world, except for [[Brunei]], [[Comoros]], [[Djibouti]], [[Falkland Islands]], [[Iran]], [[Jersey]], [[Maldives]], [[Monaco]], [[Somalia]] and [[Tokelau]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://record.adventistchurch.com/2019/03/28/the-ten-countries-or-areas-with-no-adventists/|title=The Ten: Countries or areas with no Adventists|last=Brunt|first=Maritza|date=2019-03-28|website=Adventist Record|access-date=2022-09-26}}</ref> In 2019, the Seventh-day Adventist Church had 21,000,000 baptized members around the world.<ref name=history/>

In 2020, church officials reported the lowest membership increase in 16 years, due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. The Seventh-day Adventist Church added only 803,000 members, the last time annual membership growth dropped below 1 million was in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/11/seventh-day-adventist-church-see-rate-growth-tumbl/|title=Adventist Church sees rate of growth tumble due to pandemic: Report|last=Kellner|first=Mark|date=2021-10-11|website=[[The Washington Times]]|access-date=2022-09-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://christianpost.com/news/seventh-day-adventists-have-lowest-growth-in-16-years.html|title=Seventh-day Adventist Church experience lowest rate of growth in 16 years|last=Gryboski|first=Michael|date=2021-10-13|website=[[The Christian Post]]|access-date=2022-09-16}}</ref> In 2021, the Seventh-day Adventist Church had 1.2 million members worshiping in Canada and the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://religionnews.com/2021/11/24/pastor-who-approved-of-marital-rape-removed-from-seventh-day-adventist-church/|title=Pastor who approved of marital rape removed from Seventh-day Adventist Church|last=Shimron|first=Yonat|date=2021-11-24|website=[[Religion News Service]]|access-date=2022-09-26}}</ref>