Hi Mary,
Someone did post this a week or so ago, but repetition is good when the news for the wts is bad, My personal favourite statistic is the 234 rise in the number of memorial partakers, I hope to get the opportunity to ask a few jw about that one, although none of them around here speak to me. Ther are a few jws at work who don't know me so well, so they can get ready lol.
The UK is under Britain, for some reason. I guess the wts like to be differrent, and there has been a 1% rise here, apparently, although they baptised 2535 kids of jws new converts last year, but the number of jws only rose by 1346, so 1189 jws either died, went inactive or left altogether last year.
They may have experienced a slight increase worldwide, but we all knw they baptise mainly kids nowadays, and they aren't guaranteed to stay once they grow up, so it's tough times ahead in jwland, whatever their stats say.