2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave 40 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Westenddave

  I thought i'd share the 2014 Yearbook Stats. I converted the file to excel format & sorted the Increase in Publisher's column from largest to smallest. As i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands." The highlighted Red countries are latin/spanish & the Blue is African.

  top 7 Countries account for more than 50% growth

  top 19 Countries account for 75% growth

  I've only copied a small portion of the chart. If u like the full file, contact me.

  Sorted from High to Low.	2013 Ave. Pubs	2012 Ave. Pubs	Increase in Publishers	Increase in Pubs Cumulative	% Increase Cumulative
  	A	B	=A-B
  Mexico (G-31)	777,429	749,585	27,844	27,844	17.47%
  United States of America (E-32)	1,167,723	1,156,150	11,573	39,417	24.73%
  Congo, Dem. Republic of (M-6)	174,687	163,349	11,338	50,755	31.84%
  Brazil (L-37)	748,940	737,951	10,989	61,744	38.74%
  Nigeria (L-4)	320,589	312,251	8,338	70,082	43.97%
  Angola (N-6)	94,182	86,802	7,380	77,462	48.60%
  Philippines (K-18)	185,387	178,467	6,920	84,382	52.94%
  Colombia (J-35)	157,395	152,280	5,115	89,497	56.15%
  Venezuela (J-36)	129,284	124,670	4,614	94,111	59.05%
  Ghana (L-3)	113,392	109,085	4,307	98,418	61.75%
  Peru (L-35)	114,153	110,651	3,502	101,920	63.95%
  Zambia (N-7)	160,211	156,898	3,313	105,233	66.03%
  Ecuador (K-34)	79,566	76,587	2,979	108,212	67.89%
  Guatemala (H-33)	35,598	33,017	2,581	110,793	69.51%
  Malawi (N-8)	80,175	78,225	1,950	112,743	70.74%
  Italy (G-5)	247,259	245,326	1,933	114,676	71.95%
  South Africa (P-6)	91,848	89,929	1,919	116,595	73.15%
  India (J-12)	36,869	34,995	1,874	118,469	74.33%
  Mozambique (O-7)	49,765	47,906	1,859	120,328	75.50%
  Madagascar (O-9)	27,591	25,779	1,812	122,140	76.63%
  Rwanda (M-7)	22,152	20,604	1,548	123,688	77.60%
  Nicaragua (H-33)	24,984	23,453	1,531	125,219	78.56%
  Russia (C-15)	164,187	162,748	1,439	126,658	79.47%
  Zimbabwe (O-7)	39,999	38,637	1,362	128,020	80.32%
  Chile (M-35)	73,658	72,420	1,238	129,258	81.10%
  Dominican Republic (O-29)	35,331	34,132	1,199	130,457	81.85%
  Argentina (N-36)	143,620	142,435	1,185	131,642	82.59%
  Costa Rica (J-34)	28,316	27,172	1,144	132,786	83.31%
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  Westenddave

  Let me clarify. I listed USA as spanish - Red. From information circulating, the growth is largely supplied from Spanish congregations.
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  ILoveTTATT

  And if you think about it, the Phillipines WAS a Spanish country... An extremely catholic country in Asia...

  I have thought about it and, the following factors influence growth:

  Catholicisim of the country is a HUGE factor for growth.

  Poverty of the country is another factor.

  Third factor is the length of time the religion has been in the country. USA and Mexico have had some of the longest.
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  Simon

  I'm not sure thatmath makes sense ...
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  jwfacts

  That is a great table. I hope you don't mind if I take your figures add it to an article I am writing for jwfacts.com. Interesting to see that the relgion is having very little success in the majority of the world.
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  Jeffro

  I think it would be clearer seeing the full chart. As presented, it seems like bad math. But this could be due to lack of data.
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  Mad Sweeney

  It isn't actually percent increase. It is the percent OF THE TOTAL increase. The countries listed account for 83.31% of all the JWs growth in 2013. ALL other countries combined only account for 16.69% of growth.

  If he had shown his formulas it would have been more obvious where the numbers come from.
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  prologos

  Another factor would be to show increase factored versus population growth.

  there is a lot od copulations in some populations

  Another item would be to factor in population growths, and comparing the advances of other agressive recruiting cults.
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  Mad Sweeney

  Not only the population growth of the country but the population growth of the JWs themselves. I suspect the majority of new publishers are JW kids growing up to become publisher-age.
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  ILoveTTATT

  The math makes sense: It's the cumulative growth%, i.e. if you add the percentage growth of Mexico + USA you get 24.73%, add Mexico +USA+ Congo and you get 31%, etc etc...