There was a statement in a 1997 Awake that i see people quoting on the internet that is trying to imply 4.9% of JWs are divorced compared to half of worldly people. I have found some statistics that prove that this is quite a deception.
Awake 1997 September 8 p.11 A People Taught to Love
“That hate can be replaced with love is illustrated by a survey taken in 1994 of 145,958 of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany. … By applying unselfish love in their marriages, Jehovah’s Witnesses achieve stable relationships. In some countries one marriage out of every two or three ends in divorce. But the above-mentioned survey indicated that presently only 4.9 percent of the Witnesses are divorced or separated from their mates. Not to be forgotten, however, is that a goodly number of these were divorced before they became Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
This is a deceptive use of statistics, and is trying to make a comparison of totally different statistics. 50% of people are not divorced. For example, In Australia only 5.5% of "worldly" people are divorced, quite similar to the 4.9% of German Witnesses.
I have an explaination of the why the statistics are deceptive at http://jwfacts.com/index_files/Page381.htm for anyone that is interested in tedious figures. For those who hate figures take my word for it, this is another case of the Watchtower using simple statements that are taken by the average JW as fact, which are in reality a gross distortion of the truth.