A poster named DLWOIM prepared these figures on ex JW Reddit and provide staggering information.
So, in the annual report, it says that there are 33 “other lands” that don’t get listed, countries like China and Russia where the JWs work is restricted or under ban. They don’t print the exact number of JWs in each of these countries separately, presumably for the safety of those individual JWs.
But the report does say that there are a total of about 209,000 publishers in those countries as a whole. I wanted to get an idea of what the ratio of JW publishers to population there is, so I set out to tally the population of all these countries. First, I had to cross reference the listed countries against a map of the world and see which countries were missing. I think I ended up figuring out 30 or 31 of the 33 countries. Then I googled the population of each one. I’ll copy and paste my results here:
China 1.412 billion Russia 143.4 million Egypt 109.3 million Saudi Arabia 36 million Iran 88 million Iraq 43 million Libya 6 million Syria 21 million Algeria 44 million Tajikistan 10 million Turkmenistan 6 million North Korea 26 million Eritrea 3.6 million Djibouti 1 million Yemen 33 million Oman 4.5 million UAE 9 million Qatar 2.7 million Bahrain 1.4 million Bhutan .75 million Kuwait 4.25 million Morocco 37 million Tunisia 12.25 million Lebanon 5.5 million Jordan 11 million Mauritania 4.6 million Somalia 17 million Afghanistan 40 million Vietnam 97.5 million Laos 7.4 million
I came up with a total of 2,237,250,000. I then divided that by the 209,000 publishers and got 1 JW for every 10,704 people. That’s right. In a country where the preaching work is restricted or under ban, you’d have to meet almost 11,000 people to possibly come across one JW. And, if you happen to meet that one JW and decide that his or her religion is not for you, you are deserving of everlasting destruction.
That’s the exceeding love of Jehovah for you. And that’s the overwhelming success of the worldwide preaching work of his one true people, filling all the inhabited earth with the good news of his Kingdom.
Edited to add: There are 19 listed countries with ratios that are near as bad or much worse than they 1 in 10,700 ratio. In Pakistan the ratio is one JW for every 209,000 people. In Palestine it’s 1 in every 92,000 people. The whopper is Bangladesh with one JW for every 510,000 people.