i cannot read it, once it downloads, it shrinks down

How many got baptized and how many left the organ or became inactive?

Thanks  

Hey sspo -- if you gently mouse-over the image, there will appear a little box in the lower right corner.  Click it and it goes to actual image size.  Hope that works for you. 

It' sooo nice to see goose-egg growth in a lot of modern countries.

~merf

Partakers in 2005:  8524

Increase:  234

Thanks, Midget-Sasquatch. That's even worse than what was told to me.

The actual growth for 2006 is 1.6%!

My sources got the other numbers right, but now I see they miscalculated their 1.9% increase. They compared the peak of 2005 with the peak of 2006. The peak for 2005 was 6,613,829. For 2006, it was 6,741,444. So it was a 1.9% growth. But the number that has any real validity is the average number of publishers: in this case, the percentage is 1.6, the number found in the official report. This number is exactly within the margin I though it would be.

Too bad for them. They can't score like they used to. Their decline is undoubtly confirmed.

Neo

Thanks Midget and JWFacts for posting this, it was worth the time and we appreciate it.

Like others, I note that the established areas of the world are showing nil growth or decreases whilst the areas of the world that are new to dubdom are the ones showing the increases. we see Japan still languishing and then there's Poland and New Zealand showing 1% decreases! We can imagine how sensible the folks are there but I wonder whether migration might be a factor in the declines there?

I muse about what the WTS's spin on this will be? Emphasise the 1.6% increase and ignore the 'bad news'?

Here are some interesting bits and pieces:

• Bible studies have continued to rise each year, but baptisms are generally falling
• Average hours of witnessing rose in 2006 from 200 hrs to 205 hours but are still down on the 232 hours of 1995
• Only 6 countries with over 5000 publishers had 5% growth or more, mostly from Africa
• Bangladesh has only 1 JW for every 1,377,246 people
• St Helena has 1 JW for every 30 people (how annoying must it be living there)

In the following countries - Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Thailand and Turkey there are a total of 3 billion people (half the global population) but only 40,000 Witnesses. This means there is less than 1 JW for every 70,000 people. If the 'good news is to be preached in all the inhabited world' there is no chance that this will ever be achieved by Jehovah’s Witnesses as aound half the global population have never heard of Jehovah. These countries represent Africans, Indians, Asians and Europeans, showing that no particular group are genetically disposed to be goat-like.