by raymond frantz 44 Replies latest watchtower bible
ThomasMore -“…Perhaps they are counting micro groups as congs now…”
“Please join me in asking our visiting speaker, Brother Jones, to express the love of the Smith Basement Congregation to the Jones Basement Congregation for us, as he returns home to them this afternoon.”
| 'Land' | No. of Congs. | New Congregations | Publishers per Congregation |
| Albania | 83 | 0 | 65 |
| American Samoa | 3 | 0 | 41 |
| Andorra | 3 | 0 | 55 |
| Angola | 2567 | 28 | 64 |
| Anguilla | 1 | 0 | 55 |
| Antigua | 7 | 0 | 66 |
| Argentina | 1938 | -7 | 79 |
| Armenia | 134 | -1 | 84 |
| Aruba | 14 | 0 | 77 |
| Australia | 726 | -13 | 97 |
| Austria | 283 | -4 | 78 |
| Azerbaijan | 23 | 5 | 74 |
| Azores | 15 | 0 | 53 |
| Bahamas | 28 | 0 | 60 |
| Bangladesh | 6 | 0 | 56 |
| Barbados | 30 | 0 | 76 |
| Belarus | 82 | -1 | 74 |
| Belgium | 338 | 2 | 77 |
| Belize | 53 | -1 | 46 |
| Benin | 260 | 14 | 54 |
| Bermuda | 5 | 0 | 77 |
| Bolivia | 452 | 4 | 64 |
| Bonaire | 2 | 0 | 66 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 16 | 0 | 59 |
| Botswana | 42 | -1 | 55 |
| Brazil | 12637 | 198 | 71 |
| Britain | 1599 | -15 | 88 |
| Bulgaria | 57 | -1 | 49 |
| Burkina Faso | 50 | 2 | 36 |
| Burundi | 374 | 93 | 46 |
| Cambodia | 17 | 0 | 65 |
| Cameroon | 500 | 1 | 86 |
| Canada | 1164 | -13 | 102 |
| Cape Verde | 35 | 0 | 64 |
| Cayman Islands | 3 | 0 | 94 |
| Central African Republic | 64 | -1 | 45 |
| Chad | 23 | 1 | 36 |
| Chile | 964 | 9 | 89 |
| Chuuk | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| Colombia | 2271 | 4 | 81 |
| Congo, Dem. Republic of | 4385 | 348 | 56 |
| Congo, Republic of | 123 | 7 | 73 |
| Cook Islands | 3 | 0 | 61 |
| Costa Rica | 429 | -6 | 74 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 227 | -4 | 53 |
| Croatia | 57 | 0 | 81 |
| Cuba | 1366 | -33 | 63 |
| Curaçao | 24 | -1 | 81 |
| Cyprus | 41 | 1 | 74 |
| Czech Republic | 217 | 5 | 76 |
| Denmark | 172 | -2 | 84 |
| Dominica | 10 | 0 | 39 |
| Dominican Republic | 536 | -3 | 71 |
| Ecuador | 1212 | 8 | 82 |
| El Salvador | 607 | -47 | 62 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 30 | -1 | 81 |
| Estonia | 54 | -1 | 75 |
| Eswatini | 76 | 0 | 42 |
| Ethiopia | 206 | 23 | 54 |
| Falkland Islands | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| Faroe Islands | 4 | 0 | 33 |
| Fiji | 60 | -2 | 49 |
| Finland | 272 | -3 | 67 |
| France | 1461 | -16 | 94 |
| French Guiana | 46 | 1 | 62 |
| Gabon | 59 | 0 | 75 |
| Gambia | 5 | 0 | 59 |
| Georgia | 224 | 0 | 84 |
| Germany | 2002 | -18 | 86 |
| Ghana | 2484 | 88 | 61 |
| Gibraltar | 2 | 0 | 77 |
| Greece | 345 | -9 | 80 |
| Greenland | 5 | 0 | 23 |
| Grenada | 9 | 0 | 58 |
| Guadeloupe | 118 | 0 | 71 |
| Guam | 9 | 0 | 77 |
| Guatemala | 825 | -27 | 47 |
| Guinea | 27 | 2 | 43 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 4 | 0 | 48 |
| Guyana | 46 | -1 | 70 |
| Haiti | 262 | -9 | 66 |
| Honduras | 418 | -11 | 52 |
| Hong Kong | 70 | 4 | 78 |
| Hungary | 283 | -5 | 75 |
| Iceland | 7 | 0 | 57 |
| India | 999 | 52 | 57 |
| Indonesia | 491 | 15 | 62 |
| Ireland | 121 | 0 | 64 |
| Israel | 32 | -1 | 65 |
| Italy | 2804 | -39 | 89 |
| Jamaica | 152 | 0 | 71 |
| Japan | 2888 | -5 | 74 |
| Kazakhstan | 229 | -3 | 75 |
| Kenya | 605 | -18 | 49 |
| Kiribati | 2 | 0 | 49 |
| Korea, Republic of | 1252 | -9 | 85 |
| Kosovo | 8 | 0 | 29 |
| Kosrae | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 86 | -3 | 59 |
| Latvia | 29 | -1 | 72 |
| Lesotho | 81 | -1 | 48 |
| Liberia | 146 | 5 | 50 |
| Liechtenstein | 1 | 0 | 94 |
| Lithuania | 41 | 1 | 71 |
| Luxembourg | 31 | 1 | 70 |
| Macao | 6 | 0 | 61 |
| Madagascar | 841 | 15 | 46 |
| Madeira | 19 | 0 | 62 |
| Malawi | 1882 | 51 | 52 |
| Malaysia | 119 | -2 | 47 |
| Mali | 6 | 0 | 58 |
| Malta | 11 | 0 | 77 |
| Marshall Islands | 4 | 0 | 31 |
| Martinique | 57 | 0 | 84 |
| Mauritius | 27 | 0 | 77 |
| Mayotte | 3 | 0 | 45 |
| Mexico | 12706 | -175 | 67 |
| Moldova | 195 | -6 | 91 |
| Mongolia | 8 | 0 | 51 |
| Montenegro | 7 | 0 | 53 |
| Montserrat | 1 | 0 | 35 |
| Mozambique | 1651 | 100 | 49 |
| Myanmar | 96 | 5 | 53 |
| Namibia | 47 | 1 | 55 |
| Nauru | 1 | 0 | 15 |
| Nepal | 43 | 0 | 65 |
| Netherlands | 346 | -7 | 84 |
| Nevis | 1 | 0 | 76 |
| New Caledonia | 34 | -2 | 77 |
| New Zealand | 170 | 0 | 85 |
| Nicaragua | 466 | -5 | 61 |
| Niger | 9 | 0 | 36 |
| Nigeria | 6071 | -10 | 62 |
| Niue | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| North Macedonia | 23 | -1 | 53 |
| Norway | 162 | -1 | 73 |
| Pakistan | 16 | 0 | 70 |
| Palau | 2 | 0 | 36 |
| Palestinian Territories | 2 | 0 | 38 |
| Panama | 310 | -7 | 59 |
| Papua New Guinea | 89 | -2 | 53 |
| Paraguay | 186 | -11 | 59 |
| Peru | 1551 | 0 | 84 |
| Philippines | 3552 | 41 | 69 |
| Pohnpei | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| Poland | 1267 | -5 | 91 |
| Portugal | 653 | -3 | 80 |
| Puerto Rico | 227 | -3 | 100 |
| Réunion | 41 | 0 | 84 |
| Rodrigues | 1 | 0 | 65 |
| Romania | 528 | -5 | 75 |
| Rota | -2 | ||
| Rwanda | 593 | 31 | 53 |
| Saba | -3 | ||
| Saipan | 3 | 0 | 71 |
| Samoa | 12 | 0 | 44 |
| San Marino | 2 | 0 | 98 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 14 | 0 | 63 |
| Senegal | 29 | 0 | 52 |
| Serbia | 60 | -1 | 62 |
| Seychelles | 5 | 0 | 68 |
| Sierra Leone | 42 | 1 | 56 |
| Slovakia | 134 | 1 | 84 |
| Slovenia | 27 | -1 | 64 |
| Solomon Islands | 50 | 1 | 34 |
| South Africa | 1966 | -33 | 50 |
| South Sudan | 34 | 1 | 51 |
| Spain | 1397 | -19 | 87 |
| Sri Lanka | 98 | -2 | 71 |
| St. Barthélemy | 1 | 0 | 37 |
| St. Eustatius | 1 | 0 | 27 |
| St. Helena | 3 | 0 | 38 |
| St. Kitts | 3 | 0 | 80 |
| St. Lucia | 11 | 0 | 70 |
| St. Maarten | 4 | 0 | 76 |
| St. Martin | 5 | 0 | 56 |
| St. Pierre and Miquelon | 1 | 0 | 17 |
| St. Vincent & the Grenadines | 8 | 0 | 35 |
| Sudan | 13 | 0 | 41 |
| Suriname | 55 | -1 | 58 |
| Sweden | 280 | -1 | 80 |
| Switzerland | 258 | 0 | 77 |
| Tahiti | 45 | 0 | 70 |
| Taiwan | 177 | -2 | 64 |
| Tanzania | 417 | 1 | 48 |
| Thailand | 144 | 2 | 37 |
| Timor-Leste | 5 | 0 | 76 |
| Tinian | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Togo | 363 | 14 | 63 |
| Tonga | 3 | 0 | 67 |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 130 | 0 | 80 |
| Turkey | 71 | 1 | 78 |
| Turks and Caicos | 7 | 0 | 47 |
| Tuvalu | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| Uganda | 175 | 8 | 54 |
| Ukraine | 1234 | -195 | 85 |
| United States of America | 11942 | -98 | 102 |
| Uruguay | 149 | 0 | 79 |
| Vanuatu | 13 | 0 | 46 |
| Venezuela | 1700 | -14 | 78 |
| Virgin Islands, British | 4 | 0 | 55 |
| Virgin Islands, U.S. | 8 | 0 | 64 |
| Wallis & Futuna Islands | 2 | 1 | 31 |
| Yap | 1 | 0 | 31 |
| Zambia | 3605 | 76 | 59 |
| Zimbabwe | 961 | -75 | 49 |
| 33 Other Lands | 2778 | -32 | 75 |
| Grand Total (239 Lands) | 118177 | 217 | 73 |
Jeffro
Indeed, dear friend looks like they create new congregations in countries that have no increase, something tells me this is to fudge the numbers
@Thomasmore: I didn’t know foreign language groups in Western lands were dissolved, but it makes sense, often those groups were an excuse for people like me to get out of the way, pretend you’re doing a lot of work and because these congregations have no native speaking CO or other oversight, they are often nearly independent from branches, lack ‘spiritual food’ (even getting English literature was spotty because the branch doesn’t like shipping small orders) leading to independent Bible study and thinking. Truly you want to be in a foreign language congregation if you can, it’s awesome, relaxed and people are often transient and illegal themselves so you don’t get tied down, elders (if they even have them) have a hard time structuring service and meetings and you don’t get ratted out if you do something wrong and every male and female is looking for a partner to be able to stay in the country (the stories I could tell you about drinking and grinding dancing with Russian sisters).
My last assignment in foreign language, the entire Chinese congregation had very pro-China leanings (if you want to see true skin color racism, go see Asians) and eventually the entire congregation defected and was disbanded, thinking about it decades later, I suspect the elders may have had ties with the Chinese government.
In other countries where I’ve been, there are many ‘local’ languages as the country itself is multi-lingual. There will be no way they set an official language in those areas. I know for a fact there are still multi-language congregations in my country of origin, since officially there are 3 native languages.
Anonymous - Excellent points.- especially in par. 1.
I am also aware that the Congo has been used as an exchange country for funds being extracted from other countries. That would explain the cong increase as they funneled money through newly created congregations, then back to Warwick.
I am aware that some countries still have more than one-language congs. The US has many Spanish congs still, but they have discontinued almost all the other languages. The reasons were as you stated:
"they are often nearly independent from branches, lack ‘spiritual food’ (even getting English literature was spotty because the branch doesn’t like shipping small orders) leading to independent Bible study and thinking."
