Jehovah's Witnesses by country

Jehovah's Witnesses have a presence in most countries in the world. These are the most recent statistics by nation and by continent or region, based on active members, or "publishers" as reported by the Watch Tower Society of Pennsylvania.

Bible study figures include studies conducted by Witness parents with their unbaptized children,^[1]^[2] which can be counted as one hour per week and one Bible study per month, per child.^[3]

The Society reports its active presence in various dependencies and states as separate 'lands', as noted.

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Africa

Country	Population	Publishers	Congregations	Av. Bible Studies	Memorial Attendance
Angola	24,383,301	111,123	1,565	502,848	529,827
Benin	10,880,000	11,716	186	29,253	41,706
Botswana	2,262,000	2,099	46	4,552	6,323
Burkina Faso	18,106,000	1,656	44	3,328	4,499
Burundi	9,231,000	12,577	269	39,049	50,743
Cameroon	22,637,185	37,869	339	73,129	97,390
Cape Verde	545,993	2,098	35	4,423	8,033
Central African Republic	4,900,000	2,544	53	7,874	16,350
Chad	14,037,000	687	17	1,304	4,582
Congo (Democratic Republic)	77,267,000	176,585	3,642	556,852	1,131,161
Congo (Republic)	4,620,000	6,080	77	20,438	25,444
Côte d’Ivoire	22,671,331	10,302	293	28,496	64,724
Equatorial Guinea	810,613	1,653	15	5,801	6,860
Ethiopia	99,391,000	10,013	217	7,570	25,323
Gabon	1,756,708	3,972	38	8,906	11,646
Gambia	1,990,924	230	4	388	579
Ghana	27,451,357	124,004	1,852	400,672	353,891
Guinea	11,750,000	765	19	1,884	3,136
Guinea-Bissau	1,844,325	141	3	507	701
Kenya	47,233,491	26,578	619	46,515	66,820
Lesotho	2,135,000	3,837	90	6,774	10,266
Liberia	4,190,000	6,112	126	21,661	44,716
Madagascar	24,967,390	30,941	696	79,143	131,087
Madeira^{[note 1]}	258,686	1,147	17	825	1,935
Malawi	16,000,000	80,776	1,447	116,274	296,711
Mali	17,599,694	284	7	854	1,163
Mauritius	1,330,000	1,785	25	2,093	4,124
Mayotte^{[note 2]}	230,338	147	3	352	338
Mozambique	25,727,911	53,027	1,154	90,657	291,356
Namibia	2,459,000	2,247	44	4,381	7,726
Niger	19,899,000	272	7	377	805
Nigeria	182,201,962	338,955	6,145	798,359	739,234
Réunion^{[note 3]}	843,617	2,980	37	2,450	6,297
Rodrigues^{[note 4]}	41,669	48	1	65	122
Rwanda	11,262,564	25,061	589	67,184	83,107
Saint Helena^{[note 5]}	4,000	118	3	65	272
São Tomé and Principe	194,006	754	11	3,041	3,226
Senegal	15,129,273	1,168	26	2,010	2,606
Seychelles	91,650	333	4	414	935
Sierra Leone	6,092,000	2,037	37	5,242	9,553
South Africa	54,490,000	96,631	2,108	140,789	250,754
South Sudan	11,864,683	1,218	33	3,132	4,682
Sudan	40,720,640	595	16	1,583	2,308
Swaziland	1,287,000	3,063	92	4,403	8,841
Tanzania	51,420,567	16,129	475	33,373	55,355
Togo	7,305,000	19,067	282	59,501	67,069
Uganda	36,076,000	6,832	142	19,559	23,157
Zambia	15,077,660	171,167	2,806	379,165	809,840
Zimbabwe	15,576,901	43,361	1,185	100,248	114,500

North America

Country	Population	Publishers	Congregations	Av. Bible Studies	Memorial Attendance
Azores^{[note 1]}^{[note 6]}	246,353	730	15	871	1,680
Canada	36,162,252	114,123	1,397	54,805	187,322
Costa Rica	4,819,000	29,601	433	34,861	69,247
El Salvador	6,142,600	39,643	685	45,286	92,188
Greenland^{[note 7]}	55,984	145	6	142	351
Mexico	121,856,500	818,481	13,088	1,064,408	2,242,804
Nicaragua	5,912,800	27,054	484	44,264	88,843
Panama	3,661,000	16,224	313	24,236	54,213
Rota^{[note 8]}	2,477	9	1	15	26
Saint Pierre and Miquelon^{[note 2]}	6,299	14	1	6	22
Saipan^{[note 8]}	48,220	194	2	314	557
Tinian^{[note 8]}	3,136	15	1	29	43
United States	321,773,600	1,195,081	14,063	737,471	2,475,339

Caribbean

Country	Population	Publishers	Congregations	Av. Bible Studies	Memorial Attendance
Anguilla^{[note 5]}	13,600	62	2	108	252
Antigua	80,200	462	7	570	1,230
Aruba^{[note 9]}	109,028	953	14	1,009	2,922
Bahamas	388,000	1,630	27	2,077	4,198
Barbados	277,800	2,506	30	2,262	6,531
Belize	347,900	2,515	62	4,325	8,705
Bermuda^{[note 5]}	62,000	448	5	340	909
Bonaire^{[note 10]}	18,905	118	2	169	357
Cayman Islands^{[note 5]}	60,000	217	3	232	651
Cuba	11,258,597	95,825	1,524	172,538	231,958
Curaçao^{[note 9]}	156,971	1,987	25	2,337	5,463
Dominica	72,700	437	10	722	1,448
Dominican Republic	10,478,756	36,946	567	69,892	120,103
Grenada	109,600	579	10	719	1,534
Guadeloupe^{[note 3]}	410,335	8,058	120	8,625	19,763
Guatemala	14,941,600	38,140	881	49,613	97,106
Haiti	9,993,000	19,552	275	42,074	86,029
Honduras	8,758,900	22,653	433	35,739	67,573
Jamaica	2,793,300	11,815	188	13,561	37,111
Martinique^{[note 3]}	395,027	4,755	64	5,376	10,613
Montserrat^{[note 5]}	4,900	19	1	71	108
Nevis^{[note 11]}	12,100	56	1	55	213
Puerto Rico^{[note 12]}	3,683,200	25,585	324	16,309	56,404
Saba^{[note 10]}	2,000	12		36	54
Saint Barthélemy^{[note 2]}	9,269	26	1	34	97
Saint Kitts^{[note 11]}	46,000	203	4	278	773
Saint Lucia	173,800	727	11	1,220	2,296
Saint Martin^{[note 2]}	36,522	313	5	525	1,037
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	109,344	336	8	511	1,139
Sint Eustatius^{[note 10]}	3,100	22	1	48	84
Sint Maarten^{[note 9]}	37,400	340	5	450	1,147
Trinidad & Tobago	1,333,100	9,543	122	11,331	24,103
Turks and Caicos^{[note 5]}	34,300	332	6	686	1,060
Virgin Islands (British)^{[note 5]}	30,100	256	4	251	825
Virgin Islands (US)^{[note 13]}	106,300	586	10	591	1,743

South America

Country	Population	Publishers	Congregations	Av. Bible Studies	Memorial Attendance
Argentina	42,657,055	147,379	2,014	126,606	315,790
Bolivia	10,725,000	24,836	329	42,201	77,110
Brazil	204,873,755	787,470	11,802	863,612	1,743,624
Chile	18,006,407	75,168	963	64,178	174,761
Colombia	49,367,000	165,089	2,550	222,442	510,952
Ecuador	16,278,844	85,468	1,002	142,010	260,366
Falkland Islands^{[note 5]}	2,840	11	1	9	26
French Guiana^{[note 3]}	241,922	2,373	46	5,425	9,401
Guyana	782,359	2,941	46	5,062	12,837
Paraguay	6,917,579	9,719	216	15,165	24,298
Peru	31,151,643	120,260	1,419	196,798	383,251
Suriname	540,000	2,849	55	5,218	9,889
Uruguay	3,424,567	11,614	158	9,501	23,583
Venezuela	30,851,300	138,860	1,807	197,284	433,763

Asia

Country	Population	Publishers	Congregations	Av. Bible Studies	Memorial Attendance
Armenia	3,026,900	11,019	142	7,555	23,318
Azerbaijan	9,593,000	1,303	13	1,838	2,674
Bangladesh	160,995,642	243	6	554	993
Bhutan	775,480	3		3	7
Cambodia	15,577,899	894	14	2,239	2,251
Cyprus	885,600	2,536	40	1,840	4,609
Georgia	3,729,500	18,279	229	8,796	32,569
Hong Kong^{[note 14]}	7,298,600	5,509	68	6,062	9,619
India	1,299,213,900	41,866	587	54,005	120,601
Indonesia	256,000,000	25,361	465	31,168	55,864
Israel	8,548,984	1,511	26	1,262	3,242
Japan	126,573,481	214,523	3,059	166,049	300,406
Kazakhstan	17,563,000	17,545	248	12,791	31,435
Korea (South)	50,293,000	99,950	1,358	79,826	134,894
Kyrgyzstan	5,895,062	5,071	67	5,297	10,838
Lebanon	5,053,624	3,671	57	2,206	6,533
Macau^{[note 14]}	642,900	294	4	356	715
Malaysia	30,986,035	4,804	116	8,671	12,539
Mongolia	2,959,134	435	9	797	1,280
Myanmar	54,647,652	4,099	74	4,134	8,438
Nepal	27,153,225	2,204	36	4,515	7,268
Pakistan	188,925,000	960	18	1,248	4,035
Palestinian Territory^{[note 15]}	4,680,000	71	2	72	167
Philippines	100,621,100	199,551	3,246	268,598	576,542
Russia	146,042,093	172,977	2,547	113,529	294,180
Sri Lanka	21,416,445	5,775	108	8,564	15,415
Taiwan	23,465,003	9,582	142	14,631	19,261
Thailand	67,959,000	4,258	106	6,611	8,715
Turkey	77,700,000	2,514	31	1,705	4,546

Europe

Country	Population	Publishers	Congregations	Av. Bible Studies	Memorial Attendance
Albania	3,204,000	5,381	86	6,132	12,945
Andorra	79,330	170	3	113	320
Austria	8,584,926	21,216	300	11,990	34,359
Belarus	9,496,000	5,828	76	4,989	10,212
Belgium	11,209,044	24,661	370	10,895	43,325
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,791,622	1,170	16	551	1,972
Bulgaria	7,284,500	2,290	53	2,962	5,267
Croatia	4,290,612	5,372	67	2,250	8,472
Czech Republic	10,541,466	15,471	226	7,274	26,177
Denmark	5,678,348	14,564	179	6,023	21,527
Estonia	1,313,271	4,074	54	2,723	6,793
Faeroe Islands^{[note 7]}	50,145	112	4	105	192
Finland	5,471,753	18,496	303	10,468	25,924
France	64,200,000	125,519	1,702	58,530	219,748
Germany	81,083,551	163,871	2,187	77,941	270,447
Gibraltar^{[note 5]}	29,833	127	2	55	174
Greece	10,787,690	28,592	390	13,237	46,822
Hungary	9,855,000	22,400	296	12,163	39,727
Iceland	329,000	367	7	271	692
Ireland (incl. Northern Ireland)	6,676,364	6,281	119	3,563	11,779
Italy	60,795,612	250,277	2,997	119,827	435,046
Kosovo^{[note 16]}	2,350,000	236	6	483	574
Latvia	2,000,000	2,275	36	2,058	3,750
Liechtenstein	37,370	85	1	41	135
Lithuania	2,898,062	3,101	50	2,655	5,018
Luxembourg	562,958	2,042	32	1,118	3,895
Macedonia	2,108,434	1,293	24	1,040	2,903
Malta	419,000	665	8	235	1,192
Moldova	4,069,000	19,776	240	13,863	35,813
Montenegro	631,490	270	6	181	589
Netherlands	16,956,486	29,508	360	12,421	51,743
Norway	5,189,400	11,472	166	5,614	17,889
Poland	38,478,602	121,018	1,327	52,256	191,524
Portugal	9,869,783	48,633	644	28,687	91,472
Romania	21,240,000	40,370	548	25,623	78,300
San Marino	32,890	202	2	115	351
Serbia	8,118,146	3,861	61	2,273	7,939
Slovakia	5,421,433	11,276	142	4,135	21,623
Slovenia	2,068,000	1,911	30	1,064	2,942
Spain	46,439,864	109,457	1,533	57,290	190,233
Sweden	9,804,082	22,236	315	10,394	35,366
Switzerland	8,237,666	18,611	270	9,285	31,755
Ukraine	42,529,112	141,364	1,566	84,590	236,261
United Kingdom (excl. Northern Ireland)	62,863,330	134,491	1,605	60,066	225,584

Oceania

Country	Population	Publishers	Congregations	Av. Bible Studies	Memorial Attendance
American Samoa^{[note 13]}	57,642	218	3	351	835
Australia	23,884,166	66,753	797	29,751	116,022
Chuuk^{[note 17]}	48,651	37	1	136	230
Cook Islands^{[note 18]}	13,313	194	3	203	469
East Timor	1,250,000	284	4	601	750
Fiji	887,027	2,958	78	4,615	11,845
Guam^{[note 13]}	159,358	740	9	1,037	1,943
Kiribati	104,607	136	3	310	418
Kosrae^{[note 17]}	6,616	20	1	56	118
Marshall Islands	53,158	183	4	474	914
Nauru	10,436	11	1	14	92
New Caledonia^{[note 2]}	270,710	2,164	30	2,901	6,473
New Zealand	4,618,522	13,929	185	8,408	26,008
Niue^{[note 18]}	1,190	24	1	20	54
Norfolk Island^{[note 19]}	1,329	5	1	3	19
Palau	21,108	80	2	182	233
Papua New Guinea	7,708,577	3,916	106	7,078	34,707
Pohnpei^{[note 17]}	35,981	69	1	158	212
Samoa	193,483	519	12	792	2,065
Solomon Islands	584,020	1,915	51	2,316	9,807
Tahiti^{[note 2]}	268,207	3,079	44	4,335	8,822
Tonga	105,894	208	3	299	628
Tuvalu	9,894	64	1	72	247
Vanuatu	269,442	557	12	1,370	3,720
Wallis and Futuna^{[note 2]}	14,315	44	1	72	174
Yap^{[note 17]}	11,376	28	1	110	136

Other

In addition to the published figures for individual countries, statistics are also published collectively for countries where Jehovah's Witnesses operate covertly under ban,^[4]^[5] including several Islamic and communist states.^[6]

Country	Publishers	Congregations	Average Bible Studies	Memorial Attendance
30 "Other Lands"	35,795	844	66,167	74,469

Total

Countries/Territories	Publishers	Congregations	Average Bible Studies	Memorial Attendance
240	7,987,279	118,016	9,708,968	19,862,783

Notes

1 2 Portuguese autonomous region
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 French overseas collectivity
1 2 3 4 Overseas department of France
↑ Dependency of Mauritius
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 British overseas territory
↑ Located on the North American plate in the Atlantic Ocean.
1 2 Danish autonomous region
1 2 3 United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
1 2 3 Constituent country of the Netherlands
1 2 3 Special municipality of the Netherlands
1 2 Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis
↑ Self-governing US territory
1 2 3 US insular area
1 2 Chinese special administrative region
↑ Disputed territory comprising West Bank and Gaza Strip under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority and the Hamas Government in Gaza
↑ Disputed territory within Serbia
1 2 3 4 Federated States of Micronesia
1 2 Self-governing in free association with New Zealand
↑ Australian external territory

Source

2016 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, pages 178–187, Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania.^[7]

References

↑ "Question Box–Should a family Bible study be reported to the congregation?". Our Kingdom Ministry (Watch Tower Society): 3. November 2003.
↑ "Question Box—May both parents report the time used for the regular family study?". Our Kingdom Ministry: 3. September 2008.
↑ Organized To Do Jehovah´s Will. 2005–2011. pp. 98–99, 85–87, 87.
↑ "Keep Conquering the Evil With the Good". The Watchtower: 29–30. July 1, 2007.
↑ "Global Support for the Kingdom Issue". The Watchtower: 23. January 1, 1983. Due to the viciousness of the enemy, and to protect our brothers, some of these places are not listed individually in the tabulated report, but the totals of their service appear in the line above the grand total, headed ... Other Countries
↑ Map indicating countries in which JW activities are banned
↑ 2016 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses (PDF). 2015. pp. 178–187.

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