WTS closes/dissolves 435 congregations in 29 countries

by Gayle 52 Replies latest jw friends

  • 88JM
    88JM

    Just thought I would compile past years for Poland and the 2013 congregations number does indeed look like a typo.

    If their branch was masking their figures and this year was "adjusted", then I can't see why they would only inflate congregation numbers and nothing else needed "adjusting".

    Still, ignoring that anomaly, I found it interesting to note that their publisher numbers do seem to be basically where they were a decade ago. There were increases in some years, but they are sooner or later cancelled out so their growth looks basically flat, desipte their being 100 more congregations. As has been suspected, the population numbers certainly show an overall net migration in the past decade.

    Also take a look at baptism numbers - they are nearly less than 40% of what they were in 1998. Memorial attendance is down 16% since 1998.

    Poland

    PopulationPeak pubs.Ratio of
    1 pub. to:
    Av. pubs.Inc.
    over prev.
    BaptizedAv.
    Aux Pio.
    Av. Pio.
    Pubs.
    Congs.HoursBible St.Memorial Att.
    1998
    (yb98)
    3864991412495530912370416161(incl. in Pio.)754417141674276150433246485
    19993866170012663530512359204516(incl. in Pio.)660117441572342062233060
    2000

    (Lost my book!)

    20013865400012528730912257503741(incl. in Pio.)748817591459590540439235219
    20023864100012408631112303403478(incl. in Pio.)731317691443803340846235775
    20033864400012653830512429413802(incl. in Pio.)746917741442948343548232766
    20043863245312786830212657323709(incl. in Pio.)790917811475956347361234403
    20053863245312861630012737714261(incl. in Pio.)853917941532973448545237134
    200638175000128519297127729036813385(8,603) 521817991521412045850224400
    200738157055127481299126827-137283575(8994) 541918001509743545687221004
    200838125479128235297126967038114666(10488) 582218031645805044679218539
    200938115641127154300125681-132424356(10530) 627418121613642145822213105
    2010

    (Lost my book!)

    201138091951126488301125193 26693820(10965) 714518141656972347322212002
    201238207000126196303124832 22756674(13867) 719318141767922349542213284
    2013 (yb13)38081740125485303124292 24205952(13460) 750814871800190150800206964
  • jgnat
    jgnat

    Does anyone have the grand total for yb 2013? I come up with 720,459 congregations.

  • Heaven
    Heaven

    Sooo... does this mean that Armageddon will start in Poland then?

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