by Corney 13 Replies latest jw friends
According to its own statistics, the JW organization in Germany had 1075 Kingdom Halls in August 2011, 997 KHs in November 2016, and 940 ones in August 2018.
The average decrease was 1.25 KHs per month in 2011-2016 and 2.7 KHs per month during the past two years.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ZNUhfTwpwq1Nf_9JiDC_srarst0ErrJssGCuXkbL8A/edit?usp=sharing
And yet total publishers is up. Who cares
Do you know how the "work" is in Frankfurt?
Maybe 20 years ago there was a small street in that city that had numerous kingdom halls built next to each other.
Well Morpheus - I think not. These figures don't tally with the yearbooks.
Yearbook 2012 gives the end of service year 2011 figure for publishers ...
Peak 165,387 Average 162,894
The above chart gives Aug 2011 (Probably the start of August as we have Aug 2018 figure up there and it is not the end of August yet.) as 167,107 so whatever it is, it is higher than both the yearbook figures.
Now check their Nov 2016 figure of 168,763 and look at the yearbook figures for 2016 and 2017 end of service year ...
2016 (Peak) 165,624
2017 (Peak) 165,470
So obviously they are counting publishers differently.
Now look at Congs ... not such a difference both show a marked drop.
Yearbook figure for end of service years ...
Year 2011 Congs 2228
Year 2016 Congs 2159
Year 2017 Congs 2118
The chart above says 2232 for "August 2011"
The chart above says 2149 for "Nov 2016"
The chart above says 2108 for "August 2018"
So where did the chart come from ...? You trust the chart for kh numbers but not publisher numbers?
I've no idea where the chart comes from Morpheus, perhaps the OP can explain. All I noticed was that the publisher numbers are markedly different to the yearbook numbers but the Cong numbers are very close.
As for KH numbers there is nothing except the chart to go on unless you go to jborg "find a meeting" and count every hall on the map of Germany! Even I'm not anal enough to do that.
Figures lie and liars figure.
_Morpheus, all the figures are from the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany where the official bulletins of Jehovas Zeugen in Deutschland, K. d. รถ. r. are published.
The google sheet contains all links as follows:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070711035045/http://www.jehovaszeugen.de/akt/zwv/default.html (this link works only being clicked on the google sheet and I have no idea why)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120127173330/http://www.jehovaszeugen.de/Statistik.18.0.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20151120010610/http://www.jehovaszeugen.de/Statistik.18.0.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20170103005649/http://www.jehovaszeugen.de/Statistik.18.0.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20180812100950/https://www.jehovaszeugen.de/Statistik.18.0.html
Numbers ( however they have been counted ) have pretty much flat-lined for the last 20 years - similar to most of Europe.
We know that the Society are selling off KHs as much as possible , even if it means JWs need to travel a lot longer to get to their meetings. This is pretty much a worldwide program.
