Membership in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has fallen from its peak of more than 4 million members in the 1970s to just over 2 million in 2019.
Source: “Boy Scouts Reaching Out for Handicapped Members,” The New York Times, Feb. 9, 1976, https://tinyurl.com/47x56fc6; “Boy Scouts of America 2019 Annual Report,” Boy Scouts of America, accessed March 2, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/yc8jkdzs
Data for the graphic are as follows:
| Year | Number of Members |
| 1974 | 4.3 million |
| 2019 | 2.1 million |