Dewan Metodis Dunia (World Methodist Council/WMC), yang didirikan pada tahun 1881, adalah badan konsultatif yang mewakili gereja-gereja dalam Metodisme dan memfasilitasi kerja sama di antara denominasi anggotanya. Dewan ini terdiri dari 81 denominasi[2] di 138 negara yang bersama-sama mewakili mayoritas umat Metodis di seluruh dunia, beserta gereja-gereja bersatu yang mencakup tradisi Metodis. Secara keseluruhan, anggotanya membentuk persekutuan Kristen terbesar kesembilan (lihat daftar denominasi Kristen berdasarkan keanggotaan).
WMC telah menyatakan, sejak tahun 2018, bahwa gereja-gereja anggotanya mewakili sekitar 80 juta orang.[3][4] Pada tahun 2020, World Christian Database, versi daring dari World Christian Encyclopedia, yang diterbitkan oleh Edinburgh University Press, melaporkan bahwa World Methodist Council memiliki 70.226.000 anggota.[5] Namun, menurut statistik yang dirilis oleh WMC sendiri pada tahun 2014,[6] jumlah statistik dari denominasi anggotanya sendiri, serta beberapa sumber independen, jumlah umat Metodis di seluruh dunia mendekati 40 - 51 juta orang.[7][8][9][10][11]
Organisasi-organisasi yang berafiliasi antara lain World Fellowship of Methodist and Uniting Churches, Oxford-Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, World Methodist Historical Society, World Council of Confederation of Methodist Youth, World Council of Methodist Men, World Methodist Council of Teens, dan World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women.
Each of the internal conferences listed is considered a member of the World Methodist Council, even though it is a body part of the United Methodist Church.
adherents are unbaptized people who participate in worship services. In Credobaptist denominations, the children of members, not yet baptized, are counted as adherents.
According to the denomination's statistics, it had 4,246,312 members (3,988,810 professed members and 257,502 baptized members) in the United States of America, in 2024. The most recent number released for other countries was 4,560,882 members in 2022. However, the denomination itself published that it lost 1.2 million members with the disaffiliation of the Ivory Coast Conference in 2024, which is why the number of members outside the US did not exceed 3,360,882 members at the end of 2024. Therefore, its global membership in 2024 was approximately 7,607,194.
