SALT LAKE CITY -- The Mormon population of Utah continues to get smaller.
An Associated Press analysis of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership records used by state planning officials to develop population estimates shows that Mormons now make up 60.4 percent of the state's population. That's down from 60.7 percent last year. The percentage has declined every year for nearly 20 years and if the trend continues Mormons will make up less than half of Utah's population by 2030.
"The LDS population will still increase, but as a share of the total, that should continue to decline over time," said University of Utah demographer Pam Perlich. "What would cause that to reverse would be an economic collapse and the same people who moved here for jobs leave for jobs. ... But there's a slim-to-none chance that would ever happen."
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