Panic in the Kingdom Hall, Part 2.

Hello, everybody seemed interested in my first post about figures demonstrating a shrinkage in rolling percentage growth average of the organisation.

Allow me to present to you the rolling average for net increase of publishers represented as the number of publishers.

Keep in mind, world population growth last year was 0.8% which means that of JWs grow at a slower rate than about 70,000 per year… they will be growing slower than world population.

A brief explanation of how these averages work… where 2010 is listed, it is an average of the growth of 2009, 2010 and 2011. For 2015 it’d be the average of the growth between 2014, 2015 and 2016.

2010 - 188,000

2011 - 164,000

2012 - 158,000

2013 - 157,000

2014 - 149,000

2015 - 144,000

2016 - 127,000

2017 - 124,000

2018 - 112,000

Yikes! About currently 40,000 to go before they are growing slower than world population. (Of course the that 0.8% will change was the org adds more members.)

I don’t think it’s absurd to state that there’s a strong likelihood that will occur within the next decade.

Love to you all. I hope these figures give some comfort.