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Most Ridiculous Thing You've Ever Been Counseled On

by MrFreeze in

i'm sure topics like this have already come up but they tend to get hilarious with the absolute absurdity that goes on in the kh.

i was once counseled for not shaving after two days.

i was also counseled by a sister for eating lucky charms cereal.

88JM

I was counseled for flirting with a young sister.

I'm gay

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Spoof Watchtower Covers

by jookbeard in

forgot who started to post these , but does anyone remember them?

they were very funny, anyone got any links to show them again?.

2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

88JM

I think my figures were wrong for Slovakia, sorry (I obviously missed a "1")

They actually only went down by 38.

Need to correct my master spreadsheet...

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

As far as declining increases go, Russia and the Ukraine are probably the most striking, from Russia being the 3rd biggest growing JW country in 1997, Ukraine being the 3rd biggest in 1999, to Russia being 23rd now in 2013 and Ukraine 48th:

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Russia % of world growth	9	7	9	5	5	4	5	5	5	3	3	2	2	2	2	1	1
Russia Actual Growth	17,025	13,854	9,791	6,710	4,914	6,361	6,398	6,082	3,748	3,518	6,133	2,874	5,136	2,978	3,959	1,424	1,439

Ukraine % of world growth	7	6	9	6	6	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	0	0
Ukraine Actual Growth	12,879	11,812	9,922	8,186	6,193	4,946	4,475	3,963	1,926	2,022	4,961	2,809	4,130	2,778	2,122	690	398

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

88JM

Here are the actual numerical increases (average publisher difference, anyway) for those "top" countries for the last 10 years:

Country or Territory	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Mexico	25,998	4,850	13,847	20,125	21,361	27,042	27,873	27,941	24,895	27,844
United States of America	4,567	2,207	13,189	32,303	16,790	37,507	19,589	21,406	10,427	11,573
Congo, Dem. Republic of	5,746	4,859	4,581	2,951	4,835	4,495	7,145	9,456	2,051	11,338
Brazil	20,286	12,608	15,177	25,632	18,021	21,784	17,122	14,197	17,055	10,989
Nigeria	4,993	4,465	3,998	9,144	8,322	9,226	7,297	5,361	8,414	8,338
Angola	2,743	3,299	3,793	4,301	4,219	4,119	2,928	5,083	6,842	7,380
Philippines	893	1,498	3,311	5,168	3,122	7,235	6,449	4,353	5,018	6,920
Colombia	2,401	2,632	1,591	5,236	4,140	5,420	4,982	4,591	3,513	5,115
Venezuela	2,467	1,128	1,369	3,890	3,103	6,052	5,192	5,820	4,137	4,614
Ghana	2,428	1,887	2,657	4,881	3,703	7,035	7,547	4,384	4,367	4,307
Peru	4,257	3,774	2,683	3,088	3,401	4,209	4,172	3,182	2,387	3,502
Zambia	3,311	1,742	4,031	4,031	3,162	9,216	7,364	4,521	4,763	3,313
Ecuador	2,563	2,283	2,507	4,219	4,038	4,302	4,146	3,445	3,087	2,979
Guatemala	521	642	678	1,370	1,039	1,409	1,454	1,703	2,505	2,581
Malawi	3,236	4,956	607	2,809	2,186	2,208	1,248	3,013	2,578	1,950

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

88JM

Sorry yes that was for the latest 2013 figures on the previous page.

Mexico had an increase of 25,998 in 2004 - a pretty average increase for them, but the USA and Brazil had relatively smaller increases that year, and other countries may factor in too of course.

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

88JM

It's 1995 to the latest 2013 figures if you're seeing it correctly on your screen.

I ordered them by the highest 2013 figures.

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

88JM

Here's a historical view of the worldwide increase percentage proportion.

Sorry for the width - I tried to include as many years as the forum width would allow.

Seems like these countries are the reliable earners for the WTBTS, though the USA fluctuates quite a bit. Didn't realise Mexico once counted for 21% of the growth, in 2004.

Country or Territory	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Mexico	13	16	11	13	11	9	9	9	3	21	6	14	10	16	12	16	16	17	17
United States of America	9	4	4	8	0	3	1	16	12	4	3	13	16	12	17	11	13	7	7
Congo, Dem. Republic of	3	2	0	3	1	7	3	4	2	5	6	5	1	4	2	4	6	1	7
Brazil	9	11	13	14	19	18	17	16	18	16	15	15	13	13	10	10	8	12	7
Nigeria	4	3	3	5	8	7	11	5	5	4	5	4	5	6	4	4	3	6	5
Angola	1	1	2	2	3	2	3	1	2	2	4	4	2	3	2	2	3	5	5
Philippines	1	1	2	2	2	5	2	2	2	1	2	3	3	2	3	4	3	4	4
Colombia	2	3	4	3	8	4	4	4	5	2	3	2	3	3	2	3	3	2	3
Venezuela	2	2	2	1	2	2	3	2	3	2	1	1	2	2	3	3	3	3	3
Ghana	1	1	2	2	3	3	3	2	1	2	2	3	2	3	3	4	3	3	3
Peru	1	1	2	2	4	4	4	2	3	3	5	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Zambia	0	2	2	2	4	5	4	2	3	3	2	4	2	2	4	4	3	3	2
Ecuador	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	2	2	3	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2
Guatemala	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
Malawi	1	1	2	1	1	2	3	2	3	3	6	1	1	2	1	1	2	2	1

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

88JM

I spotted it thanks! Corrected.

	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Italy Incr.	7,101	6,705	6,219	4,714	3,559	600	644	935	1,464	1,773	960	1,180	1,171	2,882	1,625	2,524	1,561	1,631	1,872	1,933

Country or Territory	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Slovakia	-150	-288	-275	-59	-178	-19	21	46	-87	-10,038
Poland	804	352	-902	140	-1,286	-2	-486	-361	-540	-1,014
Japan	77	130	-46	748	-590	191	-290	112	-660	-726
Germany	149	-580	-651	1,204	-521	346	-279	283	-189	-246
Portugal	61	-274	-71	542	25	492	122	234	83	-206
Greece	-77	-59	14	211	64	380	310	127	-3	-199
Moldova	-134	213	358	728	271	400	246	135	-33	-164
Guadeloupe	31	71	193	263	22	170	16	68	-222	-96
Puerto Rico	-97	-401	34	398	-37	409	369	290	13	-75
Hungary	13	-7	206	577	187	492	315	94	-147	-67
Finland	-93	-183	-53	184	-80	-22	-70	-19	-141	-67
Armenia	473	414	310	406	350	509	431	247	9	-54
Estonia	70	40	48	47	-5	29	7	-24	-27	-44
Croatia	15	-16	-7	47	18	59	24	22	-4	-43
Sudan	0	1267	99	99	109	102	17	-103	-1095	-39
Latvia	48	46	11	-4	-16	42	-13	-10	-10	-37
Slovenia	18	31	3	24	4	35	24	13	-4	-35
Luxembourg	5	25	39	47	34	58	47	32	-21	-25
Czech Republic	-8	-115	-150	102	-147	9	-11	26	-11	-23