File:Mormon missionaries and conversions over time.svg

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English: Graph was produced using gnuplot with data from the yearly statistics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints given in General Conference. For example, the report for 2022: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2023/05/statistical-report-2022 . Additional data from 1971 to 1976 was estimated from an older graph on Commons because General Conferences before '77 didn't list the number of full-time missionaries. That graph is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ratio_of_Converts_Baptized_to_Full-Time_Missionaries.jpg
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Gnuplot code:

set terminal svg enhanced size 600 400 set samples 1001 set border 31 linewidth .6 set output "missionaries.svg"  set key bmargin set grid xtics ytics mxtics  set xtics autofreq 0, 5 set mxtics 5 show mxtics  set ylabel "People (Thousands)" set yrange [0:400]  set y2label "Ratio Converts to Missionaries" set y2tics autofreq 0, 1 set y2range [1:9]  set style line 1 lw 1.75 lc 'red'          # Converts set style line 2 lw 1.75 lc 'blue'         # Missionaries set style line 3 lw 1.75 lc 'blue' dt 2    # Estimated Missionaries set style line 4 lw 1.75 lc '#C010A0'      # Ratio set style line 5 lw 1.75 lc '#C010A0' dt 2 # Estimated Ratio  plot 'converts_data' with lines ls 1 title 'Converts', \ 'missionary_data' with lines ls 2 title 'Missionaries', \ 'estimated_missionary_data' with lines ls 3 notitle, \ 'ratio_data' axes x1y2 with lines ls 4 title 'Converts per Missionary', \ 'estimated_ratio_data' axes x1y2 with lines ls 5 notitle 

converts_data

1970	79.126 1971	83.514 1972	91.237 1973	79.603 1974	69.018 1975	95.412 1976	133.959 1977	167.939 1978	152.000 1979	193.000 1980	211.000 1981	224.000 1982	207.000 1983	189.419 1984	192.983 1985	197.640 1986	216.210 1987	227.284 1988	256.515 1989	318.940 1990	330.877 1991	297.770 1992	274.477 1993	304.808 1994	300.730 1995	304.330 1996	321.385 1997	317.798 1998	299.134 1999	306.171 2000	273.973 2001	292.612 2002	283.138 2003	242.923 2004	241.239 2005	243.108 2006	272.845 2007	279.218 2008	265.593 2009	280.106 2010	272.814 2011	281.312 2012	272.330 2013	282.945 2014	296.803 2015	257.402 2016	240.131 2017	233.729 2018	234.332 2019	248.835 2020	125.930 2021	168.283 2022	212.172 

missionary_data

1977    25.300 1978    27.669 1979    29.454 1980    29.953 1981    29.700 1982    26.300 1983    26.565 1984    27.655 1985    29.265 1986    31.803 1987    34.750 1988    36.132 1989    39.739 1990    43.651 1991    43.395 1992    46.025 1993    48.708 1994    47.311 1995    48.631 1996    52.938 1997    56.531 1998    57.853 1999    58.593 2000    60.784 2001    60.850 2002    61.638 2003    56.237 2004    51.067 2005    52.060 2006    53.164 2007    52.686 2008    52.494 2009    51.736 2010    52.225 2011    55.410 2012    58.990 2013    83.035 2014    85.147 2015    74.079 2016    70.946 2017    67.049 2018    65.137 2019    67.021 2020    51.819 2021    54.539 2022    62.544 

ratio_data

1977	6.64 1978	5.49 1979	6.55 1980	7.04 1981	7.54 1982	7.87 1983	7.13 1984	6.98 1985	6.75 1986	6.80 1987	6.54 1988	7.10 1989	8.03 1990	7.58 1991	6.86 1992	5.96 1993	6.26 1994	6.36 1995	6.26 1996	6.07 1997	5.62 1998	5.17 1999	5.23 2000	4.51 2001	4.81 2002	4.59 2003	4.32 2004	4.72 2005	4.67 2006	5.13 2007	5.30 2008	5.06 2009	5.41 2010	5.22 2011	5.08 2012	4.62 2013	3.41 2014	3.49 2015	3.47 2016	3.38 2017	3.49 2018	3.60 2019	3.71 2020	2.43 2021	3.09 2022	3.39 

estimated_ratio_data

1971	5.50 1972	4.86 1973	4.59 1974	3.82 1975	4.24 1976	5.35 1977	6.64 # Official data, added here to connect with ratio_data 

estimated_missionary_data

1971	5.50 1972	4.86 1973	4.59 1974	3.82 1975	4.24 1976	5.35 1977	6.64 # Official data, added here to connect with ratio_data 

Captions

Graph of the number of LDS missionaries, number of converts, and the ratio between them

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