The LDS church is known to inflate their membership numbers significantly. They count anyone who was ever baptized at age 8 regardless of how active they currently are.
> Independent Latter-day Saint demographer Matt Martinich has estimated that about 40 percent of Latter-day Saints in the United States are “active,” and he guesses that roughly half of Salt Lake County’s members go to church, or roughly 24 percent of the county’s population.
Apostasy among young people has grown extreme in the last couple of decades by the church's own admission.
> Independent Latter-day Saint demographer Matt Martinich has estimated that about 40 percent of Latter-day Saints in the United States are “active,” and he guesses that roughly half of Salt Lake County’s members go to church, or roughly 24 percent of the county’s population.
Apostasy among young people has grown extreme in the last couple of decades by the church's own admission.