• The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (11,106 churches) has experienced a decline of 11.6 percent over the previous ten years
• The United Methodist Church (35,721 churches) was down 6.7 percent
• The Episcopal Church (7,314 churches) lost 5.3 percent of its membership
• The United Churches of Christ (5,863 churches) declined 14.8 percent
• The American Baptist Churches USA were down 5.7 percent.
  

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Membership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) declined by more than two percent in 2005, marking the highest percentage loss in the graying denomination since 1975.

• Figures indicated a loss of 48,474 members -2.05 percent -since 2004.
• The losses occurred in "virtually every statistical category," according to PNS
  • 28,680 lost by transferring to other churches
  • 36,191 leaving by death
  • This exodus offset the 125,000 new people who joined the denomination last year.
    
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• Less than 20% of Americans regularly attend church—half of what the pollsters report.  The actual number of people worshipping each week is closer to 52 million people instead of the pollster-reported 132 million (40%).
• In 1990, 20.4% of the population attended an Orthodox Christian church on any given weekend. In 2000, that percentage dropped to 18.7% and to 17.7% by 2004.
• Only one state is outpacing its population growth.
  • Hawaii, where 13.8% of the state's population (1.3 million) regularly attends church, was the only state where church attendance grew faster than its population growth from 2000 to 2004.
• If trends continue, the percentage of the U.S. population attending church will be almost half of what it was in 1990.
                                  
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