2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

by steve2 42 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  steve2

  The October Kingdom Ministry for the United States reported the 2014 Memorial Attendances for the US branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread. In that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of Europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.

  So, have Memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as Kingdom Ministryyet?

  If so, could you direct me to the source(s). Thank you.
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  steve2

  BTTT
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  alanv

  With any luck the lack of replies on this thread may mean that other countries attendaces were not reported in local Kingdom Ministries. I also asked for anyone knowing the UK figure but nothing has turned up so far. So maybe in many lands there has been no increase.
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  steve2

  It's interesting that they report the attendance for this year's memorial for the US branch territory ( which turns out to be fewer than in 2011) but appear not to report the attendances in the kingdom ministry for other countries.
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  Nostromo

  Don't have the 2013 numbers here to compare but the 2014 numbers are:

  Estonia: 6,875

  Latvia: 3,725

  Lithuania: 5,451

  Finland: 26,669
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  jwstudy

  October Kingdom Ministry 2014 Japan

  It says "We are pleased that we had 307,071 attendance last memorial..."

  The column never mentions last year reports or comparisons.

  Here are the actual memorial attendances in Japan for a decade.

  YEAR ATTENDANCE
  2004 348,397
  2005 338,330
  2006 336,240
  2007 331,172
  2008 332,986
  2009 326,983
  2010 322,845
  2011 323,211
  2012 314,111
  2013 310,215
  2014 307,071

  Its funny they should say "We are pleased". Yes, decline ratio is somewhat smaller than last year!
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  OneEyedJoe

  Man, Japan is always ahead of the trends - declining since 2004!
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  sir82

  Wow - over a 10% decline in Memorial attendance in Japan over 10 years!

  Likely explanation: elderly JWs are dying, and most kids are not sticking around, and virtually NO ONE from the "field" is entering....

  This, I suspect, is what the worldwide numbers will show over the next few decades....
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  alanv

  Don't have the 2013 numbers here to compare but the 2014 numbers are:

  Estonia: 6,875

  Latvia: 3,725

  Lithuania: 5,451

  Finland: 26,669

  Looks like 0.5% increase in these countries.
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  steve2

  	2011	2013	2014
  Estonia	7,351	6,671	6,875
  Finland	26,950	26,810	26,669
  Latvia	3,977	3,747	3,725
  Lithuania	5,555	5,285	5,451

  Thanks Nostromo for the 2014 memorial attendances for the above countries. As can be seen, all show decrease compared to three years ago, although a couple show some relative increase over last year. But the overall trend is one of attrition in memorial attendance - although not yet as spectacular as Japan's shrinkage.