I don't want to distract from the great work being done, but would love to learn more about the publisher statistics in the OP.
"there are more than 2 Spanish-speaking JW's for every one that speaks English"
Astounding!
I would never have guessed, but wish I was more informed.
Does anyone know the numbers?
English vs Spanish vs Total publishers?
Just glancing at the publisher stats isn't much help if one knows little about which countries speak Spanish.
Example: USA 1,219,931 publishers, Spain 110,940 publishers (2013).
Under Spanish Language in Wikipedia: "Approximately 414 million people speak Spanish as a native language, making it second only to Mandarin in terms of its number of native speakers worldwide."
And under the native Spanish speakers by country sub-heading: Mexico - 110,974,139, and USA - 38,325,155, and world - 437,451,369.
Under English Language in Wikipedia: " It is the third-most-common native language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish." (1999 source).
What a surprise.
Anyone have the corresponding JW numbers/totals?