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2022 Grand Totals

Branches of Jehovah’s Witnesses: 86
Number of Lands Reporting: 239
Total Congregations: 117,960
Worldwide Memorial Attendance: 19,721,672
Memorial Partakers Worldwide: 21,150
Peak of Publishers a: 8,699,048
Average Publishers Preaching Each Month: 8,514,983
Percentage of Increase Over 2021: 0.4
Total Number Baptized b: 145,552
Average Pioneer c Publishers Each Month: 1,465,202
Average Auxiliary Pioneer Publishers Each Month: 381,310
Total Hours Spent in Field: 1,501,797,703
Average Bible Studies d Each Month: 5,666,996

During the 2022 service year, e Jehovah’s Witnesses spent $242 million in caring for special pioneers, missionaries, and circuit overseers in their field service assignments. Worldwide, a total of 21,629 ordained ministers staff the branch facilities. All are members of the Worldwide Order of Special Full-Time Servants of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

waton

That is 12 minutes per year for every human on Earth. from Putin tp baby Josephine.

Reasonfirst

What can they expect?

The urgency of the Russel/Rutherford era with its emphasis on 'this generation shall not pass,' has gone along with that first generation of witnesses. Explaining away their failure on that part of the message is very difficult.

You'd have to be a bit dumb not to see that.

no-zombie

While I've mentioned it before in my other posts about annual reports, the population pyramid of the Organization is the clearest indicator of the its decline we have. No matter what tweaks the GB does, it will not overcome the fact that it is controlling an aged religion and one that will collapse upon itself due to the lack of numbers. We all know of course that at 0.4% increase (which is actually zero by the HQ own reporting methodology) is less than the global population growth rate of 1%, however what I think is clearer this year's report, is picture occurring from third world countries.

These previous hot spots of growth (with higher than average fertility rates) have now cooled off. This should not be surprising because, while these lands may be poor economically, the people there are very quick to work out whether or not something has real value. When they have to choose to go to another meeting or to work to literally feed their families, the choice is easy, no matter what the slickly made 'trust in Jehovah' videos say.

Population Pyramids aren't that sexy as compared to other scandalous news items we get from time to time, but they are most truly; predictive fact. And if the Faithful Slave is honest enough to release an annual report next year, I fully expect it to contain ... a negative global growth number, despite the millions of hours in the field.

Beth Sarim

What can they expect, is that a 'sucker' is born every minute. It's the born-ins that usually pay.

Hellothere

Wonder how much the number of pimos has been rising last 20 years. If they don't get in people from territory in western world, then mostly are born in. With don't believe, but are dragged in by family. Pimo is not gonna donate much money. So there's the money problem. Pimo gonna deffently report lots fake hours. Even if report is bad. The actually true report is much much worse then this. When Singer Prince died he didn't have any will. He left 156 million and none of that was written as a will for watchtower. So just cause some celebrity gets in don't mean they heavy donators.

FedUpJW

Wow! Amazing! 10,318 hrs per each new baptized JW. The equivalent of five years full time employment per each baptism. Pretty sad in my opinion, considering most of those are no doubt "yung wahns" who have been coerced into baptism by their parents.

Syme

The number of baptized continues collapsing: good
The partakers still going up despite the best efforts of the GB: good, makes them look ridiculous
The annual growth is consistently below 1% since 2019: good
The pioneers continue to go up: neutral. It means those that remain are more prone to talibanization. Who cares.
Memorial attendance down. With the exception of the first year of the pandemic (2020), it hasn't been that low since 2013.

All in all, it hasn't been a bad year! More blessings to come!

Reservations

Only 2.5% of Bible studies got baptised.

How many of those 97.5% of Bible studies will stick it out to baptism?

The attrition rate was 0.85. Only until that rate is over 1 average for a 5 year period, IMHO we can’t honestly say this organisation is in decline.

TonusOH

They rely on things being bad enough that additional people will join as a hedge ("maybe they're right, it can't hurt..."). Which is what makes the numbers distressing for them, that during a period when you had a ready-made 'sign of the end' (a worldwide "plague!" a war that might spread! faltering economies!) they could not keep the rank and file engaged and they could not draw in more new converts.

A high control cult doesn't have quite as much control when the members are not within easy reach all of the time. I think that the biggest concern now for the WTS is not the numbers, it is what might be happening among the members who are already in. How many PIMI became PIMO during the past three years? Who will be more of an influence on the rest... the ones who stay dedicated and grind it out every week, or the ones who do just enough to get by and seem less stressed?

2022 WTS Numbers