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breakfast of champions: I'm most shocked that:....
Oh, they're not. I am.
I number crunched the data and devised the table myself, including the column headings etc.
I decided to go with 10ths of a percent to help give a general idea of either up-lift or down-lift.
Likewise I used both the + and the - in front to hopefully make it clearer.
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St George of England
thanks - yeah, seems that the 2017 Yearbook with the 2016 Service Year was the odd-one out!
I thought the WT checked this stuff 70 times or something before printing it!!!
The actual Jdub numbers and figure appear robust (ie they match up similiar year-to-year) - the only problem is the population which effects the ratio and rel-terms increase <sigh>
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Phizzy: I find the figures for Ireland hard to follow, an increase in Peak Pubs, but a big increase in the ratio of general population to Pubs, which translates to a huge minus % in the last column. Would this not mean that Ireland has had a huge population increase in just one year ???
haha! thanks! they ARE hard to follow....
It appears that WT has made another typo/mistake (see notes at bottom of table regarding population of Guinea-Bissau)
WT appears to have added the population of Ireland (4.75 million) with Northern Ireland (1.85 million) to make 6.6 million
WT Ireland 2016
WT Ireland 2017
The figures for Britain appear to be unaffected with the above mistake.
Until the WT updates their own figures - I'll use 4,773,095 from The World Bank
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=IE
This therefore gives:
Ireland 2017 CORRECTED
In the Grand Totals, this slightly decreases the Population, I also appear to have a mistake/typo regarding the Grand Total Ratios (excl 'Other Lands') - the 2016 ratio is 649.6 (rounded to 650) and the 2017 ratio is 648.3 (rounded to 648) - the percentage increase in real terms appears to be uneffected at +0.2%
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slimboyfat
For clarification, I thought 1.4% increase was the summarised worldwide growth in average publishers. Is that wrong? Or is it a coincidence that the increase in average publishers matches the increase in peak publishers for this year?
Year-on-year growth for Average Publishers was 1.43407% - which rounds down to 1.4%
Year-on-year growth for Peak Publishers was 1.39386% - which rounds up to 1.4%
Using Peak Publishers is not great - but the table compares like-with-like, Peak 2016-with-Peak 2017
See also my comments here
Regarding Russia see my comments here
The congregation numbers are really interesting.
I don't think you can look purely at number of congregations, you need to look as how many publishers are in each one - in the US they average 91 publishers-per-congregation.
Colombia lost 213 congregations, while growing 1.6%
In practical terms it means that the 173,802 publishers in Coloumbia have gone from an average of 67 publishers-per-congregation to 74 publishers-per-congregation.
In comparision, their 'next-door' neighbour, Venezuela, with 149,355 publishers has an average of 79 publishers-per-congregation.
The decline in Germany is quite amazing. They have lost 41 congregations in a single year, despite massive immigration to Germany over the last few years.
They still have an average of just 78 publishers-per-congregation.
South Africa lost 58 congregations. That's pretty huge.
I don't really think so - I believe South Africa was the country that was featured in the July 2017 Broadcast regarding KH seat utilization!!
See: WT VIDEOS: Merging Congregations and Seat Utilization (from Nov 2016 and July 2017)
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dropoffyourkeylee: What is meant by %Real Terms? Eighth column from left
See the notes at the bottom of the table.
Increase (or decrease) of Jdubs compared to population increase (or decrease) from 2016 to 2017.
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confidential items are of most interest of course, just curious what they're talking about there in general and what are the newest things everyone is being warned about, etc.
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I believe you're refering to the KMS (Kingdom Ministry School) - the one-day school for Elders (on Saturdays) and Ministerial Servants (on Sundays).
The full outlines, with videos - all in English are here:
Leak: officially videos and talks to Kingdom Ministry School 2018
forgive me if this specific question has been asked and answered.. the jw worldwide report includes their number of publishers, but it doesn't make a distinction between inactive, irregular, or active.
do they include everyone?
in other words, the "faders" that don't dissociate ... are they forever counted in their yearly publisher report because they are technically just an "inactive publisher"?.
WIld_Thing: Is there a Watchtower document you can point to that says that?
Yes. The following explains some background:
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/how-many-jw-members/
BUT also see the following, which explains it a bit more 'honestly' using a Watchtower article from 2011:
how many months consecutively does a jw have to miss turning in time to be inactive?.
fantastic new video by the lovely susan gaskin and friend andrea discusses the huge variety of exjw opinions and why our supposed disunity is in reality our strength.
the witnesses will claim we cannot agree and there are nothing but fights and a lack of harmony within our community whereas they are the most unified religion who believe the same things where ever you go.
however andrea points out that this is just an illusion, there is no unity amoung jws.
stuckinarut2: I pulled out the blackboard and wrote the following words on it : UNITY or UNIFORMITY... Oh, I was "counselled" firmly for this after the meeting!
Counseled by who exactly??
Awake May 8, 2003
The Bible’s Viewpoint: Does Christian Unity Require Uniformity?
Religion today seems to be characterized by disunity. Even within the walls of one church, people may have a variety of conflicting beliefs in matters of doctrine and conduct. One writer put it this way: “It’s even difficult to find two people who believe in exactly the same God. These days, it seems, every human being is a theology unto himself.”
In stark contrast with this, the apostle Paul exhorted first-century Christians in Corinth to “speak in agreement” and to “be fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought.” (1 Corinthians 1:10) Some today criticize Paul’s admonition. ‘People are different,’ they argue, ‘and it is wrong to insist that all Christians think or act in the same way.’ But was Paul really recommending robotic conformity? Does the Bible allow for personal freedom?
Unity, Not Uniformity
In another of his letters, Paul urged Christians to serve God with their “power of reason.” (Romans 12:1) Certainly, then, he would not have been trying to turn members of the Corinthian congregation into unthinking automatons. But why did he tell them to be “fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought”? Paul gave this counsel because the congregation in Corinth was experiencing a serious problem. Factions had developed, so that some viewed Apollos as their leader while others favored Paul or Peter or held only to Christ. Such disunity was no trivial matter, for it threatened the peace of the congregation.
Paul wanted the Corinthians to “observe the oneness of the spirit in the uniting bond of peace,” just as he later admonished the Christians at Ephesus. (Ephesians 4:3) He was encouraging the brothers to follow Jesus Christ unitedly, not to be split into disunited groups, or sects. In this way they would enjoy a peaceful harmony of purpose. (John 17:22) Paul’s counsel to the Corinthians thus served to readjust their thinking and promote unity, not uniformity.—2 Corinthians 13:9, 11.
