by gubberningbody 54 Replies latest jw friends
A moron is specifically a person with the mental age between 8 and 12 years old.
I wouldn't say all Dubs are like that but I certainly know some with arrested development and a preadolescent maturity level. If you abdicate your own mind and free will it's going to atrophy after awhile.
I try to think of how I used to "think" when still in. Of course I didnt think I was a moron, but I was mind controlled. I was taught that the cult had "special information" and "holy spirit" and that nobody else did. Those are the major selling points of cults according to Steve Hassan. When a mind is under control like that there really is no amount of factual information that can overcome the programming already instilled.
It takes an event or just a good reason for the person under mind control to investigate the alternative. Maybe some mistreatment by the cult or one of its members will open the door just a crack for other information to seep in.
Of course the social structure of the cult also makes it difficult if not impossible for most to even consider they are wrong. Its one thing to admit that you were wrong, but everyone else too, all my friends and family can't be wrong. So the thought process is shut down before it even develops. And if it does progress beyond that it is shut down by the threat of shunning. It truly takes a free thinker to overcome a cult, and much of society would rather be told what to do.
The human capacity - even among otherwise intelligent humans - to turn difficult questions over to others is well documented. Often, a religion doesn't even have to do much to quieten doubters: as research on lots of groups has shown, compliance is relatively easy in groups.
I attribute the Watchtower's success more to apathy among its members than to draconian measures to stamp out opposition.
Most people seem to prefer to leave the sorting out of the details of their beliefs to their "leaders"; that is as true among the JWs as it is in the established churches. The irony of course is the JWs claim that they are not like the established churches in that they are not just nominal believers. Fact is, most of them are. Few, if any JWs, for example, can explain the 1914 Doctirne from the Bible. They simply leave the detail to their leaders, but mouth the basic notion about the doctrine. No different from nominal members in other churches.
@Gayle:
"Now things are different. It is archaic, for JWs to be bringing literature door to door,,very limited information, expensive, the paper waste, gas and hopefully JWs may gradually value their productivity of their 'time' more."
Really? In what respect are things "different" now that we are living in the Information Age for people living here in the US? What about the people living in the world in places like Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Guam? Or the folks that are living in Venezuela, Bolivia, Madagascar and Rwanda? Here in the US, more people are being connected to the 'net via broadband lines, but where high-speed internet access is unavailable, folks continue to connect via dial-up accounts. Keep in mind though that unless those using dial-up are willing to forego sleep times to surf the 'net late a night, not much surfing is likely to take place during the week, if at all, since most of the homes here in the US have a single phone line, and cannot afford a second "fax" line what with the expense of the cell phone that family members use with text plans sans data plans. Compare what things I just said here about the US (which things are also applicable to Canada and Great Britain btw) with other lands in the world that might be able to use dial-up accounts, but which get daily an average of some six hours of electricity, where its inhabitants are charging their one cell phone.
"The old methods of the Watchtower are outdated, of no value. The third-world areas with not much computers access, The Watchtower will not thrive in such areas too long as it will not truly help such areas with their needs and people there may only go in relatively briefly but out even more quickly as the Watchtower will only deal with them harshly to meet the cultic demands."
These lands (some of which are specifically mentioned above) have no data plan for surfing the 'net, and in many lands, including here in the US, many folks read books, magazines and newspapers for research and to keep up with local and world events, renting DVDs for entertainment in lieu of buying movie tickets. Quite frankly, bringing Bible-based literature is not passe in the US and it certainly isn't passe in lands that either have no access to dial-up or broadband lines or cannot afford internet access. But here you are contradicting yourself when you acknowledge that there is no computer access in "third-world areas."
The striving of Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide is to reach the folks living in all lands and islands of the sea for a witness as they are committed to doing before the end comes, since lives are at stake and the time left for accomplishing this most important work is reduced, and the many dissenting opinions that are being disseminated on the 'net in recent years had led to an urgent need for more regular pioneers to help where the need is greater as the love that some brothers and sisters once had for their neighbor has cooled, so that they took their hands off the plow and became disenchanted with their spiritual lives and no longer have an interest in supporting the heavenly Kingdom government of the Christ, as they selfishly long for the life that they left behind in "Egypt" (Numbers 14:3).
In fact, these disgruntled ones murmur and use the 'net to pressure others to accompanying them back to Egypt as they wish to turn back to pursuing those "weak and beggarly" things they had done before leaving Egypt. (Luke 9:62; Hebrews 10:38, 39; Galatians 4:9) You see, in the world that they supposedly left behind -- "Egypt -- one could worship their god in their own way, like that Samaritan woman at John 4:22-24, who had the Pentateuch, who had the first five books of the Bible, who felt she was worshipping the true God, Jehovah, but in reality the god that she was worshipping didn't really exist, her god being a nonexistent god, a god that she called "Jehovah," but not the God of truth. My God -- the true God, Jehovah -- this Samaritan woman didn't know at all.
God had revealed so much more knowledge about himself over the years in the remaining 34 books of the Hebrew Scriptures than this woman knew, not unlike it is today when we now have the Greek Scriptures, even more has been revealed about God that has been obscured by the "man of lawlessness" so that there are people worshipping an unknown god, a trinitarian god that just doesn't exist called "Jesus. Notice how Jesus explained things to the Samaritan woman at John 4:19-24:
"The woman said to him: 'Sir, I perceive you are a prophet. Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain; but you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where persons ought to worship.' Jesus said to her: 'Believe me, woman, The hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you people worship the Father.'
"'You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation originates with the Jews. Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him. God is a Spirit, and those worshiping him must worship with spirit and truth.'" (John 4:19-24, NWT)
Now the Samaritan woman believed in the same law of Moses in which the Jews also believed, so why does Jesus tells her, "You worship what you do now know"? Because in her religion, this her understanding about Jehovah God was partial, incomplete, distorted, and only based on five books of the Bible, so what little bit that she knew would have been unacceptable to God, and she actually worshipped a god that she really didn't know.
Jehovah's Witnesses worship the true God, Jehovah, and when God's spirit clearly began to operate upon five (5) men back in 1876, God used those dedicated Bible students to reveal even more about Himself than had been known or had been taught about Him:
Charles T. Russell, who had been associated with the Congregational Church, had become acquainted with Jonas Wendell (1815-1873), who had been associated with the Second Adventist Church; Nelson H. Barbour (1824-1906), who had been associated with the Millerites Adventists; George Stetson (1814-1879), who had been associated with the Advent Christian Church; Henry Grew (1781-1862), who had been associated with the Orthodox Church; and George Storrs (1796-1879), who had been associated with the Methodist Church.
When it became evident that God had been blessing Russell's efforts to champion Bible truth, Russell took the lead in 1879 in publishing the Watchtower magazine, and although he was an imperfect man and what things he published were not inspired, God's blessings continued to be on his work so that it was discerned that it had become the instrument and sole channel of communication through which God was using to gather the remaining ones of the anointed and to make whatever changes or adjustments it deemed necessary to nourish the household of faith with spiritual food at the proper time so that the organization kept multiplying.
Jesus told the woman that God is looking for "true worshippers," those that would worship Him "with spirit and truth," so the god of many Jehovah's Witnesses that have fallen away is not Jehovah, but is a nonexistent god, so, in effect, that worship goes to Satan the Devil, who accepts all worship not based on truth.
We've got to worship a God that is known by us, and merely attaching ourselves to a name like "Jehovah" -- or in the case of those calling themselves "Christians" today, the name, "Jesus" -- and saying that our god is the God of the Bible, according to what Jesus told that Samaritan woman, would not be enough, would it?
God must be known to us in an accurate and true and clear way; otherwise, we could become just like that Samaritan woman at John 4:22-24, a worshipper of a god that is unknown to us, and many folks today are like that, and thus they make clear that their god is actually the Devil because of their /not/ worshiping God in truth.
You talk about paper waste and gas, and while there are real costs attached to publishing books and magazines, what they contain are essentially miniature sermons, limited only by the focus given to the particular topic the book or magazine covers, which serve to whet the appetite for even more books and magazines that those conscious of their spiritual need devour again and again, and such are still ideally suited for conducting research on various Bible-related topics in places where no internet access exists just as they were before the Information Age began.
Although the internet has been around since 1969 when Al Gore invented it, by 1991 the web became global, paving the way for folks to conduct research of all kinds on computer networks that began to spring up and to obtain music, form chat rooms and send text messages. But I'm not sure if by "Information Age" you meant the "Digital Computer Age," which Age began in 1976 with the introduction of the first personal computer called the "Apple I," followed by the "IBM Personal Computer," or "PC," in 1981, and during the ten years before global internet networks became a reality, the "sneaker" networks, using floppy disks as their backbone, were all the rage, since the real "Information Age" began when the telegraph was born in 1837. (BTW, what I said here about Al Gore and the internet is an old joke; maybe you've have heard it before.)
I didn't understand what it was you meant when you stated, "... but out even more quickly as the Watchtower will only deal with them harshly to meet the cultic demands." Unlike a cult, Jehovah's Witnesses do not have a human leader, like Jim Jones ("People's Temple") or David Koresh ("Branch Davidians") were both cult leaders, for Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians that follow the Lord Jesus Christ, and so we do not follow any man. But, still what "cultic demands" do I, as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, make on anyone? What "cultic demands" does the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society make on anyone? What "cultic demands" does "the faithful and discreet slave" make on anyone? Lastly, what "cultic demand" does the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses make on anyone?
djeggnog, your support of the governing body is outstanding in most regards. Good on you for putting up a valiant defense for them.
However, you seem to disobey them when it comes to communicating with apostates. Is the governing body wrong in asking faithful witnesses not to do this? Or, if not wrong, able to be ignored in the service of your need to stick up for them?
Oh, Steve, is it all you can tell us when you don't have any good argument or answer???
"Why you visit this page? Why you disobey GB and come here?"
I don't want to insult you, but that is....
pathetic and miserable....
Drop that platitude.
COMRADE TITUS
d jeggnog,
AS an elder I am getting a lot of questions on this...your explanation is reasonable, but I still dont get how this applies to the first century.. I understand that you are making a separation of what Jesus said to the Jews about Jerusalem and what was said for the time of the end.. but then I have a question about that as well. Let me ask you... why was it that Matthew, Mark and Luke all recorded the prophecy about the generation (all of which were written before the destruction in 70 C.E) but John, who wrote after the destruction, didn't record that account. It would seem that if it were important for our day the last person to report it would have at least recorded the event, thus showing us that it applies to our day...dont you think? Also, in the area of increasing light I really have a problem here... notice the following "generation teachings"
at what point was there ever light to increase? some of these are mutually exclusive ideas.. its not that we were on the right track and had MORE light shed, in the case of 1995 we were totally wrong. Thats not new light. 1995, in comparison to what we have now, is DEAD WRONG. not adjusted, or tweaked or modified. It was DEAD WRONG. I have to ask... where will we be with this next year? or the year after? is there "new light" waiting that will take us in a new direction? are we wrong now? why dont you care? and all of this "humility" that you profess that we have as JW's.. where was the apology for being DEAD WRONG all of those previous times?
as for cult like restrictions... let me say as an elder the fact that i have to come to this board and look for insight is a sign of just how bad it is at home. If i called the desk or wrote to the branch about this or asked the quesitons i asked of you in this post I would be removed. If i refused to conform my view to that in the most recent WT, even though it is subject to change tommarow, I would be DF"d and we both know it. If that aint a cult I dont what is
I just wanted to post in small defense......
Quite a bit of my territory doesn't have access to the internet. (rural, rocky and lots of high elevations)
Those who do outside of immediate reach of the only cable company in several counties, are limited to dial-up (really slow dial-up) at best.
I began to notice that the decline in anointed remnant number tapered off in the late 70's and finally around 1985 I talked to an actuary about the numbers gap problem. He agreed to do some calculations for me. I decided that the average age of the of anointed would have been 35 years old in 1935 when the final sealing was done and the hope for the great crowd put forth. in reality I think the age was older, but this made it easy for the actuary. i have lost my origianl numbers, but if memory serves me, he told me that in 1985 that generation of anointed would be down to around 3500 people- which was about 40% of the 8500 partakers posted in the yearbook. By 1990 it would be down to only 1500. Not one JW appreciated my research, the Bethel desk told me to zip my lips. The elders told me to keep quiet, elders just like elderlite who were doing their job to enforce conformity for the WT Corporation. This knowledge just ate at me for 3 more years and I basically became Brother do-nothing, until 1987 when I stumbled upon my first WT expose book at the library. I had the bits an pieces, but I didn't assembly it together due to a lack of coherent imformation. I know that I would have never gotten into the JW's, if the Internet had been around 40 years ago.
dj ... you don't know what you're talking about...
3rd world countries are very much going on the net... It's just that they're going wireless because it's way cheaper...
Showing latest available data. Select another time period:
| Rank | Countries  | Amount  | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | United Arab Emirates: | 1,709.042 per 1,000 people | 2007  | |
| # 2 | Bahrain: | 1,574.997 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 3 | Macau: | 1,569.069 per 1,000 people | 2008 | |
| # 4 | Hong Kong: | 1,511.372 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 5 | Estonia: | 1,506.18 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 6 | Qatar: | 1,393.254 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 7 | Israel: | 1,385.163 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 8 | Lithuania: | 1,373.817 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 9 | Bulgaria: | 1,351.521 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 10 | Italy: | 1,341.466 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 11 | Antigua and Barbuda: | 1,317.99 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 12 | Czech Republic: | 1,278.261 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 13 | Portugal: | 1,260.284 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 14 | Luxembourg: | 1,258.168 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 15 | Singapore: | 1,234.129 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 16 | Bahamas, The: | 1,223.602 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 17 | Spain: | 1,206.803 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 18 | Russia: | 1,202.452 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 19 | Ireland: | 1,202.214 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 20 | Ukraine: | 1,193.092 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 21 | Austria: | 1,191.251 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 22 | United Kingdom: | 1,184.542 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 23 | Germany: | 1,179.003 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 24 | Greenland: | 1,178.475 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 25 | Finland: | 1,160.646 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 26 | Iceland: | 1,150.925 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 27 | Sweden: | 1,148.367 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 28 | Denmark: | 1,141.709 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 29 | Norway: | 1,121.885 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 30 | Greece: | 1,120.556 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 31 | Croatia: | 1,120.554 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 32 | Slovakia: | 1,113.905 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 33 | Hungary: | 1,107.863 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 34 | Kuwait: | 1,107.138 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 35 | Netherlands Antilles: | 1,105.767 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 36 | Poland: | 1,074.53 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 37 | Switzerland: | 1,071.656 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 38 | Taiwan: | 1,063.132 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 39 | Montenegro: | 1,062.211 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 40 | Netherlands: | 1,056.724 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 41 | Aruba: | 1,044.466 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 42 | Australia: | 1,040.414 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 43 | Faroe Islands: | 1,035.197 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 44 | New Zealand: | 1,031.398 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 45 | Saudi Arabia: | 1,028.258 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 46 | Romania: | 1,026.887 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 48 | Argentina: | 1,002.483 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 49 | Belgium: | 984.39 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 50 | Latvia: | 981.056 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 51 | South Africa: | 961.411 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 52 | Slovenia: | 959.564 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 53 | Trinidad and Tobago: | 953.996 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 54 | Andorra: | 953.747 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 55 | Seychelles: | 943.892 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 56 | Bermuda: | 942.006 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 57 | Malaysia: | 940.604 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 58 | Jamaica: | 936.654 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 59 | Jersey: | 927.051 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 60 | Malta: | 924.405 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 61 | Venezuela: | 915.326 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 62 | Brunei: | 907.157 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 63 | Korea, South: | 886.944 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 64 | El Salvador: | 883.266 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 65 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: | 880.244 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 66 | Barbados: | 878.008 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 67 | Turkey: | 870.955 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 68 | Uruguay: | 868.056 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 69 | Maldives: | 861.174 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 70 | Puerto Rico: | 857.35 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 71 | Chile: | 856.937 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 72 | United States: | 846.782 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 73 | Japan: | 842.314 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 74 | Serbia and Montenegro: | 832.786 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 75 | Algeria: | 826.893 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 76 | Kazakhstan: | 823.556 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 77 | Gabon: | 803.51 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 78 | Guatemala: | 797.447 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 79 | New Caledonia: | 794.799 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 80 | Liechtenstein: | 791.367 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 81 | Thailand: | 789.588 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 82 | France: | 789.48 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 83 | Jordan: | 788.179 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 84 | Botswana: | 786.006 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 85 | Oman: | 780.056 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 86 | Cayman Islands: | 768.182 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 87 | Colombia: | 764.788 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 88 | Tunisia: | 763.126 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 89 | Réunion: | 755.985 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 90 | Mauritius: | 748.272 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 91 | Libya: | 745.414 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 92 | Virgin Islands: | 738.676 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 93 | Macedonia, Republic of: | 738.357 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 94 | Panama: | 737.777 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 95 | Ecuador: | 733.224 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 96 | Suriname: | 708.645 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 97 | Guadeloupe: | 707.963 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 98 | Gaza Strip: | 692.119 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 99 | Guernsey: | 673.525 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 100 | Paraguay: | 649.264 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 101 | Saint Lucia: | 641.419 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 102 | Albania: | 638.796 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 103 | Brazil: | 636.701 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 104 | Mexico: | 627.907 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 105 | French Polynesia: | 626.606 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 106 | Belarus: | 613.424 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 107 | San Marino: | 608.042 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 108 | Morocco: | 593.326 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 109 | Dominican Republic: | 588.63 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 110 | Guam: | 587.625 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 111 | Dominica: | 584.853 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 112 | Canada: | 575.892 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 113 | Philippines: | 568.693 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 114 | Bosnia and Herzegovina: | 538.202 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 115 | Peru: | 537.651 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 116 | Azerbaijan: | 529.541 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 117 | Monaco: | 529.231 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 118 | Georgia: | 516.573 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 119 | French Guiana: | 512.26 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 120 | Iraq: | 509.861 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 121 | Pakistan: | 509.375 per 1,000 people | 2008 | |
| # 122 | Fiji: | 475.685 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 123 | Gambia, The: | 471.404 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 124 | Iran: | 455.216 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 125 | Moldova: | 435.83 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 126 | Grenada: | 427.192 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 127 | China: | 414.03 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 128 | Kyrgyzstan: | 407.256 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 129 | Belize: | 401.855 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 130 | Samoa: | 401.372 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 131 | Equatorial Guinea: | 399.128 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 132 | Tonga: | 397.704 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 133 | Mauritania: | 397.546 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 134 | Armenia: | 394.188 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 135 | Côte d'Ivoire: | 391.375 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 136 | Namibia: | 389.425 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 137 | Vietnam: | 389.386 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 138 | Sri Lanka: | 381.481 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 139 | Guyana: | 374.592 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 140 | Egypt: | 374.245 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 141 | Nicaragua: | 374.073 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 142 | Costa Rica: | 363.581 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 143 | Bolivia: | 356.831 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 144 | Congo, Republic of the: | 350.996 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 145 | Cape Verde: | 349.375 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 146 | Indonesia: | 348.688 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 147 | Syria: | 346.885 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 148 | Swaziland: | 335.373 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 149 | Ghana: | 331.599 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 150 | Senegal: | 329.264 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 151 | Lebanon: | 320.978 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 152 | Kenya: | 309.912 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 153 | Honduras: | 304.692 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 154 | Mongolia: | 299.963 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 155 | Nigeria: | 299.153 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 156 | Angola: | 269.66 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 157 | Mayotte: | 267.222 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 158 | Northern Mariana Islands: | 262.148 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 159 | India: | 257.91 per 1,000 people | 2008 | |
| # 160 | Micronesia, Federated States of: | 254.028 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 161 | Haiti: | 252.685 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 162 | Cameroon: | 251.157 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 163 | Benin: | 234.579 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 164 | Tanzania: | 232.71 per 1,000 people | 2008 | |
| # 165 | Zambia: | 229.929 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 166 | Bangladesh: | 228.451 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 167 | Laos: | 226.618 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 168 | Lesotho: | 214.562 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 169 | Saint Kitts and Nevis: | 212.835 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 170 | Uzbekistan: | 208.783 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 171 | Togo: | 208.714 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 172 | Mali: | 206.996 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 173 | Guinea-Bissau: | 201.116 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 174 | Sudan: | 189.541 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 175 | Cambodia: | 184.554 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 176 | Liberia: | 176.162 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 177 | Afghanistan: | 164.944 per 1,000 people | 2008 | |
| # 178 | Mozambique: | 157.853 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 179 | São Tomé and Príncipe: | 150.817 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 180 | Uganda: | 138.62 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 181 | Yemen: | 137.653 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 182 | Sierra Leone: | 126.291 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 183 | Vanuatu: | 122.658 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 184 | Madagascar: | 114.043 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 185 | Burkina Faso: | 112.451 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 186 | Tuvalu: | 111.722 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 187 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the: | 100.256 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 188 | Zimbabwe: | 99.585 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 189 | Chad: | 92.902 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 190 | Djibouti: | 90.657 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 191 | Malawi: | 77.261 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 192 | Niger: | 69.795 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 193 | Somalia: | 65.798 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 194 | Bhutan: | 64.179 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 195 | Rwanda: | 64.103 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 196 | East Timor: | 63.596 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 197 | Comoros: | 56.226 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 198 | Papua New Guinea: | 51.761 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 199 | Turkmenistan: | 44.293 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 200 | Nepal: | 41.832 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| # 201 | Tajikistan: | 40.457 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 202 | American Samoa: | 38.596 per 1,000 people | 2004 | |
| # 203 | Burundi: | 29.796 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 204 | Central African Republic: | 29.755 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 205 | Guinea: | 20.994 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 206 | Solomon Islands: | 19.229 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 207 | Cuba: | 17.404 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 208 | Ethiopia: | 15.788 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 209 | Eritrea: | 14.267 per 1,000 people | 2007 | |
| # 210 | Marshall Islands: | 11.064 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 211 | Kiribati: | 7.071 per 1,000 people | 2005 | |
| # 212 | Burma: | 4.203 per 1,000 people | 2006 | |
| Weighted average: | 623.9 per 1,000 people | |||
| Historical countries, unions or other regions: | ||||
| European Union | 1,019.798 per 1,000 people | |||
DEFINITION: The total number of mobile cellular telephones in use. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population
