JWs are growing

by stillajwexelder 10 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  stillajwexelder

  OK I got my world population infor from here.

  http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop

  If the JWs have an average of 6.7 million publishers and there are 6.7 billion people in the world then simple math tells us the publisher to population ratio is 1:1000 . I will update this thread as I get information which I do not have in front of me at the moment because I am at work.

  In 1980 the worlds population was 4.5 million and yet there were 2.5 million witnesses - so the JW: World population ratio was 1:1800

  In 1990 the worlds population was 5.2 million

  CURRENT 1:1000 - I am using average publishers not peak publishers.

  So there is no question they are growing - just not nearly as fast as from about 1981 -1993 when the growth rate was tremendous
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  daniel-p

  They are growing, but the rate of growth is declining.
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  stillajwexelder

  They are growing, but the rate of growth is declining.

  EXACTLY -and the worlds population growth rate is increasing
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  dawg

  Hey bro... are you tryng to make us all sick?
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  daniel-p

  They are growing, but the rate of growth is declining.

  EXACTLY -and the worlods population grwoth rate is increasing

  ... Which means that even the JW birth rate can't sustain growth for the religion, since otherwise it would indicate a lower brith rate (or higher death rate) than the rest of the world (which is probably not the case since the "sample pool" [almost 7 million people] is so large.)
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  martinwellborne

  only in ignorance
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  WTWizard

  One can only wonder how many of them are going to end up finding out that they have been wasting their time and discontinue the field circus. Or, how many put in fake time slips every month to look good (or go out and do dummy service).
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  cultswatter

  stilla

  EXACTLY -and the worlds population growth rate is increasing

  No - we passed the maximum growth per time (rate) in 1980/81 (world pop) and the growth rate per capita is also dropping.
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  lrkr

  I say that the reason for the pop in the mid 90's is the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 90s and the resulting increase "over there". Last years increase I can't figure out- Just all of the drum beating, I guess
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  Highlander

  Wow, that's impressive growth by the j-dubs. They have increased from .0005% of the world's population to a great crowd of .001% wow!