How big is the JW org?

RubyTuesday

Major Denominational Families of Christianity
(This table does not include all Christians. These numbers are estimates, and are here primarily to assist in ranking branches by size, not to provide a definitive count of membership.)

Branch	Number of Adherents
Catholic	1,030,000,000
Orthodox/Eastern Christian	240,000,000
African indigenous sects (AICs)	110,000,000
Pentecostal	105,000,000
Reformed/Presbyterian/Congregational/United	75,000,000
Baptist	70,000,000
Methodist	70,000,000
Anglican	68,000,000
Lutheran	64,000,000
Jehovah's Witnesses	14,800,000
Adventist	12,000,000
Latter Day Saints	11,500,000
Apostolic/New Apostolic	10,000,000
Stone-Campbell ("Restoration Movement")	5,400,000
New Thought (Unity, Christian Science, etc.)	1,500,000
Brethren (incl. Plymouth)	1,500,000
Mennonite	1,250,000
Friends (Quakers)	300,000

http://www.adherents.com/adh_branches.html

writerpen

Well I would say they are way off on the Witness number. The size now is only about six million. They must be using the memorial attendance.

freeman

15 mil JW's, I don't think so.

Freeman

FreeToBeMe

14.8m ??????????????

Never mind the memorial attendees, maybe that just the number of doors they knocked on last year .... given the dramatic drop in service hours...

or maybe it's the number of times they knocked on one door being convinced someone was inside.

Li'l ol' cynical me ;)

(Baptised publishers nearer 6m... somewhat lower than their Salt Lake City rivals!!)

Francois

That many, huh?

That number for Jehovah's Witnesses includes: any one who has ever taken the Watchtower (and it's companion magazine, Awake!); all witnesses, dead or alive, who have ever gone in field service (that is, dropped off an old magazine in a laundromat) for as long as 15 minutes, plus an estimate of any and all people who have ever tried to pronounce the tetragrammaton.

14.8 million my ass.

Francois

Reborn2002

Francois says:

14.8 million my ass.

My sentiments exactly. Even in the Jehovah's Witnesses OWN publications (like so many other contradictions) they ADMIT to have roughly 6 million members worldwide, with close to 15 million in Memorial Attendance.

Claiming all 15 million as active members?

Lies.

This makes it even more blatantly obvious how misinformed many are, as these statistics are GROSSLY inaccurate.

William Penwell

I think the key words here are, "Number of Adherents". Some at the WT using inflated figures to make them look bigger than they really are. They must be using the momerial attendance figures but the are been hypocritical because we have always been told a you can not claim to be a Jehovah's Witness unless you are active in the field service.

Will

gumby

Francois...That number for Jehovah's Witnesses includes: any one who has ever taken the Watchtower (and it's companion magazine, Awake!);

Say what? Are receptive householders now counted as publishers? Not that I remember unless I'm misunderstanding you.

LB

It's 6 million and it's been 6 million for many years. And to keep it at 6 million they've reduced the requirements to be a publisher.

How big is the JW org?

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