The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) · Compiled by this site from multiple public sources; IBGE 2022 Census (own tabulation)
Five angles on the Church in Brazil, the country that in 2025 overtook Mexico to become the nation with the most Latter-day Saints outside the United States. The first chart is a compiled historical membership timeline, 1940-2025 — sparser than this site's other membership timelines, since fewer annual Brazil-only figures are publicly documented; every point is a real reported or rounded figure, with irregular gaps left as gaps rather than filled in. The second compares Brazil against the four other largest Latin American Church populations (Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina) as of Dec. 31, 2025. The third uses the 2022 Brazilian Census (IBGE) — but is deliberately NOT an LDS-specific figure: IBGE's public religion variable only breaks out 9 broad groups, so "Outras religiosidades" (Other religions) is a mixed bucket covering Latter-day Saints alongside Jehovah's Witnesses, Spiritualists, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and more, by state. The fourth tracks the cumulative count of dedicated Brazil temples, 1978-2026 — an accelerating pace, with 5 of the 12 dedicated in just the last 4 years. The fifth tracks the country's mission count, 1950-2025 — real decade-by-decade figures that roughly doubled each decade through 1990, then grew far more slowly even as membership kept climbing steadily. See docs/datasets/lds-brazil-2022/README.md for every figure's citation and the full framing note on the smaller-faiths chart.