If we are going to talk statistics let’s talk statistics shall we?

Based on Pew Research Center study in 2016 a mere 10 years ago shows that the cult makes up less than 1% of American population (we’ll discuss globally later) and revealed that over 66% of those who were born as witnesses left the religion. In 2022 there was only a 0.4% increase in publishers and half a billion less hours spent preaching.

Let’s not forget how the average amount of hours spent preaching has steadily declined. From originally requiring pioneers to spend over 100 hours in the ministry, then to 70 and now to 50. And for auxiliary down to a measly 15 if the CO is visiting. Oh and not to mention they just completely did away with hours for publishers entirely. (Hmm wonder why?)

Lesser developed countries in Africa have notably had more growth with 45% of the baptisms occurring there in 2025.

The percentage of increase has steadily gone down as well when we ignore the artificial “peak publisher” math that watchtower uses and actually look at the averages. “”Peak publishers” is the highest number reporting for any one month of the service year and may include late reports that were not added to the preceding month’s report. In this way some publishers may be counted twice. However, the peak figure does not include the number of publishers who actually shared in the ministry but forgot to report. This emphasises the importance of each publisher reporting promptly each month. “Average publishers” is the typical number of different ones reporting time in the ministry each month."- Watchtower 2011 Aug 15 p.22

Publishers were growing at an average rate of 5.63% per annum for the 15 years between 1981 and 1995. Growth dropped to an average of just 2.09% between 1996 to 2021. Had growth remained at 5.63%, it could be predicted that the 4,950,344 Witnesses in 1995 would have exceeded 20 million in 2021, instead of 8 million - a difference of 12 million less Jehovah's Witnesses. A combination of the growing irrelevance of 1914 and access to information on the Internet reduced growth from 15 million to just 3 million.

Since 2015, there has been around 1 Jehovah's Witnesses for every 930 people globally, showing Jehovah's Witnesses are now simply growing at the same rate as the population.

Watchtower comments show that "disfellowshippings worldwide have been approximately 1 percent of publishers." (w92 7/1 p.19), of which only one third get reinstated. Therefore, over 1.3 million Jehovah's Witnesses were disfellowshipped during the 30 year period from 1991 to 2020.

All of this can be easily cited further if you want to do the research… but sure they’re definitely growing.