Please read the words explaining the tables. The exit numbers were extrapolated from the information that was actually given by the LDS Church. You take the number of new converts add it to the number of Children of record, add those numbers to the previous years membership, and you will see the number of “exits” when you subtract the new years membership numbers.
These exit numbers are not given by the church and so they lack any explanation at all. Logic would tell us that people die (yes, even Mormons) and so the exit numbers would enclude the approximate .6% (adjusted for a higher birth rate among Mormons) deaths. In some years there were NO exits (no deaths either) in fact, the dead would have had to resurrect since not only were there no exits, but the membership numbers, plus the new converts, plus the new birth added up to LESS than the total number given....where did these people come from.
I don’t need your analysis DU. You should think about what your Church is not telling you, and how they misrepresent the truth. Then come back and spin it for us like a good Mormon apologist.