The Baptist World Alliance's own membership information, read 2026-08-22, reporting an Alliance census of 283 participating Baptist fellowships in 138 countries with 178,000 churches and 53,000,000 baptized members as of 2025.
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Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: the Baptist World Alliance's own membership count and census, a primary institutional record from the umbrella body itself rather than an independently audited count of its member unions. NotesThe Baptist World Alliance's own published census of its affiliated member bodies; a primary denominational self-count covering only BWA-affiliated Baptists, not every Baptist congregation worldwide.
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AuthorBaptist World Alliance
PublisherBaptist World Alliance
Publication Year2025
URLhttps://baptistworld.org/membership-information/
Source TypeOfficial statistical return
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