Jehovah's Witnesses by country

Jehovah's Witnesses have an active presence in most countries. These are the most recent statistics by continent, based on active members, or "publishers" as reported by the Watch Tower Society.^[1] The Watch Tower Society provides 'average' and 'peak' figures for the number of active members. The 'peak' figure refers to the highest number of reports for any month, including late reports from the previous month; this results in some members being counted twice for the 'peak' figure.^[2][3]

Bible study figures indicate the average number of Bible studies conducted each month by Jehovah's Witness members with non-members. This includes studies conducted by Jehovah's Witness parents with their unbaptized children,^[4][5] which can be counted as one Bible study per month, per child.^[6]

The Watch Tower Society reports its activity in various dependencies and constituent states as separate 'lands', as noted.

Africa

Country	Population	Peak[2]	Publishers	Increase (%)	Baptized	Ratio[note 1]	Cong.	Bible studies	Memorial attendance
Angola	37,805,000	180,925	174,283	6	9,674	217	2,578	492,430	673,685
Benin	14,463,000	15,596	14,896	6	815	971	283	29,160	49,214
Botswana	2,360,000	2,473	2,355	2	142	1,002	43	3,629	6,321
Burkina Faso	23,840,000	2,123	1,920	5	85	12,417	55	2,459	4,984
Burundi	13,345,000	20,040	18,729	8	1,663	713	394	39,820	77,037
Cameroon	28,608,000	44,670	44,144	3	2,128	648	579	57,745	109,064
Cape Verde	604,000	2,280	2,239	0	89	270	35	3,329	7,595
Central African Republic	5,916,000	3,352	3,169	11	269	1,867	69	9,044	26,006
Chad	18,847,000	1,016	928	11	74	20,309	25	1,137	4,647
Congo (Democratic Republic)	105,625,000	280,107	266,689	9	19,017	396	4,590	709,804	1,403,269
Congo (Republic)	6,244,000	10,303	9,579	7	598	652	131	25,481	33,768
Côte d'Ivoire	31,934,000	13,331	12,761	6	532	2,502	231	22,040	57,615
Equatorial Guinea	1,543,000	2,863	2,646	9	181	583	34	7,321	8,482
Eswatini	1,222,000	3,420	3,301	4	149	370	74	4,551	8,116
Ethiopia	129,720,000	12,166	11,812	5	675	10,982	204	8,545	27,357
Gabon	2,384,000	4,895	4,629	4	251	515	61	8,107	13,343
Gambia	2,760,000	334	314	7	10	8,790	6	438	774
Ghana	33,008,000	159,140	155,026	3	8,877	213	2,585	326,967	402,031
Guinea	14,529,000	1,367	1,252	9	104	11,605	30	2,495	5,018
Guinea-Bissau	2,197,000	215	206	7	13	10,665	4	492	792
Kenya	52,428,000	33,107	31,492	6	1,800	1,665	598	43,530	80,371
Lesotho	2,337,000	4,340	4,104	6	110	569	82	6,023	11,737
Liberia	5,613,000	8,800	7,954	9	657	706	150	22,732	42,384
Madagascar	31,965,000	43,217	41,619	8	3,358	768	863	80,802	169,469
Madeira[note 2]	257,000	1,199	1,186	1	19	217	19	395	1,921
Malawi	21,655,000	117,602	105,680	7	9,804	205	1,997	141,711	414,897
Mali	24,479,000	378	361	3	15	67,809	6	467	934
Mauritius	1,218,000	2,160	2,125	2	59	573	27	1,671	5,036
Mayotte[note 3]	321,000	181	144	7	6	2,229	3	205	363
Mozambique	32,420,000	99,705	91,998	13	10,775	352	1,942	163,859	411,440
Namibia	3,020,000	2,962	2,800	8	229	1,079	50	4,451	9,706
Niger	26,312,000	378	320	-1	21	82,225	9	427	897
Nigeria	232,679,000	406,732	390,623	4	18,930	596	6,145	748,645	857,080
Réunion[note 3]	886,000	3,602	3,531	2	85	251	41	1,593	6,837
Rodrigues[note 4]	45,000	69	66	2	1	682	1	61	174
Rwanda	13,800,000	37,013	34,252	8	2,656	403	633	61,953	112,816
Saint Helena[note 5]	4,000	119	113	0	0	35	3	43	268
São Tomé and Príncipe	235,000	897	841	-4	62	279	14	2,378	3,459
Senegal	18,502,000	1,606	1,566	4	51	11,815	28	1,781	3,264
Seychelles	121,000	373	345	2	4	351	5	309	1,044
Sierra Leone	8,642,000	2,659	2,442	4	189	3,539	43	4,525	9,081
South Africa	61,997,000	105,359	100,889	3	4,798	615	1,929	102,414	270,310
South Sudan	15,254,000	2,319	2,116	22	195	7,209	35	4,252	8,313
Sudan	49,358,000	367	140	-73	22	352,557	3	233	42
Tanzania	61,741,000	22,347	21,217	7	1,458	2,910	418	38,968	66,944
Togo	9,515,000	24,471	23,886	5	1,248	398	392	52,321	70,943
Uganda	45,900,000	10,261	9,909	5	698	4,632	183	22,678	36,204
Zambia	21,315,000	258,013	228,281	8	18,073	93	3,654	421,860	1,085,831
Zimbabwe	15,675,000	52,895	50,000	7	3,208	314	974	90,494	131,488

North America

Country	Population	Peak	Publishers	Increase (%)	Baptized	Ratio	Cong.	Bible studies	Memorial attendance
Azores[note 2][note 6]	241,000	813	804	1	22	300	15	536	1,627
Belize	411,000	2,494	2,456	0	98	167	52	2,031	7,598
Bermuda[note 5]	64,000	425	391	2	0	164	5	153	850
Canada	41,013,000	124,407	122,291	3	1,867	335	1,159	40,981	196,562
Costa Rica	5,247,000	32,501	32,175	1	852	163	422	19,495	70,135
El Salvador	6,339,000	37,271	37,135	-1	772	171	589	20,172	79,753
Greenland[note 7]	57,000	132	124	9	0	460	5	70	330
Guatemala	17,843,000	39,191	38,886	0	1,109	459	788	27,129	94,610
Honduras	9,876,000	21,638	21,546	0	649	458	406	16,403	57,560
Mexico	130,861,000	878,990	866,247	1	24,946	151	12,310	584,904	2,157,985
Nicaragua	6,916,000	28,885	28,536	0	873	242	440	23,091	79,346
Panama	4,065,000	18,867	18,663	2	609	218	302	15,790	53,614
Saint Pierre and Miquelon[note 8]	6,000	18	16	-6	0	375	1	12	31
United States	336,751,000	1,259,538	1,236,274	1	23,367	272	11,858	455,800	2,408,873

Caribbean

Country	Population	Peak	Publishers	Increase (%)	Baptized	Ratio	Cong.	Bible studies	Memorial attendance
Anguilla[note 5]	16,000	67	62	13	0	258	1	52	201
Antigua	104,000	468	449	-3	15	232	7	287	1,264
Aruba[note 9]	106,000	1,112	1,086	1	24	98	13	606	2,662
Bahamas	415,000	1,723	1,643	-3	42	253	28	1,284	4,361
Barbados	282,000	2,356	2,318	1	40	122	30	1,438	5,957
Bonaire[note 10]	25,000	148	142	8	0	176	2	116	423
Cayman Islands[note 5]	86,000	304	294	5	0	293	3	174	757
Cuba	10,056,000	84,508	83,579	-3	1,416	120	1,315	83,462	194,715
Curaçao[note 9]	149,000	1,946	1,906	-2	44	78	24	1,240	4,963
Dominica	73,000	397	385	-2	2	190	10	438	1,240
Dominican Republic	11,434,000	38,466	38,107	0	1,115	300	532	44,933	117,648
Grenada	127,000	536	514	-2	9	247	9	330	1,408
Guadeloupe[note 3]	379,000	8,524	8,407	1	233	45	115	5,413	19,236
Haiti	11,867,000	16,821	16,589	-4	754	715	251	26,370	70,473
Jamaica	2,825,000	11,088	10,769	0	266	262	153	6,462	33,310
Martinique[note 3]	350,000	4,847	4,776	-1	98	73	56	3,350	10,581
Montserrat[note 5]	4,000	33	30	-14	0	133	1	41	101
Nevis[note 11]	10,000	78	73	-4	0	137	1	55	265
Puerto Rico[note 12]	3,222,000	23,000	22,697	0	394	142	226	7,090	43,407
Saba[note 10]	2,000	20	16	0	0	125	1	13	58
Saint Barthélemy[note 8]	11,000	38	35	-5	0	314	1	22	96
Saint Kitts[note 11]	40,000	246	238	-1	3	168	3	182	739
Saint Lucia	184,000	800	775	0	13	237	11	535	2,205
Saint Martin[note 8]	26,000	324	296	6	3	88	5	302	1,067
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	110,000	321	292	4	6	377	8	266	906
Sint Eustatius[note 10]	3,000	37	29	7	0	103	1	15	85
Sint Maarten[note 9]	43,000	308	295	-2	11	146	4	184	956
Trinidad and Tobago	1,367,000	10,547	10,449	0	296	131	127	7,876	26,029
Turks and Caicos[note 5]	49,000	352	329	0	3	149	6	341	914
Virgin Islands (British)[note 5]	39,000	231	217	-2	0	180	4	128	734
Virgin Islands (US)[note 12]	104,000	517	499	-2	10	208	8	346	1,264

South America

Country	Population	Peak	Publishers	Increase (%)	Baptized	Ratio	Cong.	Bible studies	Memorial attendance
Argentina	46,235,000	156,673	154,970	1	4,612	298	1,928	81,696	307,955
Bolivia	12,567,000	30,258	29,693	2	1,017	423	452	32,749	79,880
Brazil	203,081,000	926,480	913,789	2	27,652	222	12,704	524,507	1,810,952
Chile	20,086,000	88,592	87,419	2	2,333	230	974	41,097	188,741
Colombia	52,215,000	191,405	188,819	2	5,775	277	2,306	147,916	552,793
Ecuador	17,893,000	102,793	100,824	2	4,156	177	1,196	94,966	275,229
Falkland Islands[note 5]	4,000	13	10	-17	1	400	1	10	21
French Guiana[note 3]	309,000	3,064	2,944	3	108	105	42	4,596	11,545
Guyana	820,000	3,324	3,238	1	98	253	45	3,219	12,288
Paraguay	7,656,000	11,532	11,285	3	344	678	183	10,269	24,613
Peru	34,038,000	138,118	134,261	3	5,453	254	1,672	138,835	380,481
Suriname	634,000	3,410	3,158	0	130	201	57	3,372	9,816
Uruguay	3,444,000	11,995	11,871	0	294	290	150	6,855	22,441
Venezuela	28,405,000	138,146	136,000	3	4,285	209	1,716	118,742	413,102

Asia

Country	Population	Peak	Publishers	Increase (%)	Baptized	Ratio	Cong.	Bible studies	Memorial attendance
Armenia	3,040,000	11,575	11,388	5	396	267	128	4,626	25,606
Azerbaijan	10,303,000	2,072	1,846	-9	60	5,581	29	1,737	3,866
Bangladesh	174,701,000	388	371	10	33	470,892	11	492	1,116
Cambodia	17,091,000	1,213	1,161	5	56	14,721	21	1,454	2,956
Cyprus	1,268,000	3,171	3,126	3	72	406	42	1,485	5,723
East Timor	1,401,000	396	378	-1	25	3,706	5	472	1,048
Georgia	3,695,000	19,372	19,130	2	685	193	217	4,830	33,706
Hong Kong[note 13]	7,497,000	5,530	5,485	1	259	1,367	72	3,935	9,661
India	1,441,720,000	59,122	58,332	2	3,102	24,716	1,017	57,418	158,775
Indonesia	281,604,000	32,345	31,435	3	1,205	8,958	488	25,288	61,140
Israel	9,907,000	2,127	2,093	0	38	4,733	33	978	3,762
Japan	124,143,000	214,020	213,719	0	1,936	581	2,866	87,769	290,165
Kazakhstan	20,140,000	17,188	17,093	0	410	1,178	224	6,402	29,488
Korea (Republic)	51,285,000	106,036	105,873	0	1,868	484	1,245	35,731	137,662
Kyrgyzstan	7,162,000	5,268	5,138	1	167	1,394	78	2,597	10,211
Macau[note 13]	686,000	413	390	6	2	1,759	6	407	914
Malaysia	33,380,000	5,697	5,650	1	190	5,908	118	5,528	12,315
Mongolia	3,505,000	449	441	9	15	7,948	8	556	1,216
Myanmar	56,624,000	5,296	5,221	2	359	10,845	98	5,747	11,948
Nepal	29,651,000	2,913	2,872	3	179	10,324	58	3,827	7,477
Pakistan	241,499,000	1,265	1,166	4	59	207,117	16	973	4,389
Palestinian territories[note 14]	5,613,000	80	78	3	1	71,962	2	57	201
Philippines	113,000,000	266,410	257,621	5	12,201	439	3,662	252,392	680,399
Sri Lanka	22,037,000	7,013	6,907	-1	251	3,191	95	6,918	15,745
Taiwan[note 15]	23,407,000	11,761	11,615	2	310	2,015	178	8,887	20,475
Thailand	71,668,000	5,526	5,449	3	164	13,153	149	5,136	11,118
Türkiye	85,372,000	5,318	4,954	-11	196	17,233	65	2,276	8,239

Europe

Country	Population	Peak	Publishers	Increase (%)	Baptized	Ratio	Cong.	Bible studies	Memorial attendance
Albania	2,402,000	5,380	5,352	-1	137	449	78	3,229	10,447
Andorra	86,000	165	161	-2	0	534	3	95	340
Austria	9,105,000	22,630	22,449	1	306	406	283	6,919	35,446
Belarus	9,156,000	6,100	6,070	0	111	1,508	81	2,722	10,711
Belgium	11,764,000	26,568	26,359	1	541	446	330	9,628	45,170
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,194,000	955	934	-1	12	3,420	16	190	1,400
Britain[note 16]	69,196,000	144,579	143,033	2	2,395	484	1,579	43,452	229,344
Bulgaria	6,448,000	2,953	2,897	4	94	2,226	57	1,817	6,475
Croatia	3,851,000	4,671	4,612	-1	47	835	56	853	7,179
Czech Republic	10,859,000	17,296	17,066	3	310	636	219	4,827	30,629
Denmark	5,970,000	14,667	14,579	1	213	409	173	3,780	20,690
Estonia	1,375,000	4,122	4,114	1	64	334	53	1,383	6,630
Faroe Islands[note 7]	55,000	146	133	1	1	414	4	64	197
Finland	5,604,000	18,384	18,224	1	284	308	270	6,801	25,989
France	68,128,000	139,932	138,624	1	2,890	491	1,461	42,784	233,207
Germany	83,445,000	177,240	175,678	2	2,800	475	1,979	48,001	277,109
Gibraltar[note 5]	34,000	168	164	6	0	207	2	27	225
Greece	10,482,000	27,760	27,661	0	413	379	340	6,763	43,584
Hungary	9,600,000	21,559	21,401	1	487	449	279	6,278	38,516
Iceland	394,000	452	440	10	5	895	7	170	724
Ireland[note 17]	7,192,000	8,269	8,063	4	125	892	122	2,712	13,860
Italy	58,990,000	251,493	250,754	0	4,261	235	2,723	76,648	420,423
Kosovo[note 18]	1,587,000	251	239	3	1	6,640	7	233	478
Latvia	1,872,000	2,115	2,082	-1	23	899	29	769	3,301
Liechtenstein	40,000	105	102	9	0	392	1	23	181
Lithuania	2,893,000	2,925	2,899	-1	42	998	39	905	4,601
Luxembourg	672,000	2,240	2,209	2	0	304	32	800	4,116
Malta	542,000	958	841	0	23	644	10	270	1,503
Moldova	2,888,000	20,538	19,673	10	461	147	191	7,284	36,328
Monaco	38,000	46	44	—	0	864	1	17	96
Montenegro	638,000	432	414	12	1	1,541	7	119	769
Netherlands	17,951,000	29,618	29,425	1	456	610	340	8,494	48,810
North Macedonia	1,830,000	1,276	1,242	2	24	1,473	23	508	2,529
Norway	5,562,000	12,047	11,977	1	166	464	161	3,181	17,986
Poland	37,582,000	114,894	114,437	-1	1,465	328	1,268	24,114	181,252
Portugal	10,142,000	54,601	53,651	3	1,046	189	649	20,219	97,193
Romania	19,064,000	40,216	39,965	1	959	477	527	16,291	83,695
San Marino	34,000	212	204	5	0	167	2	69	329
Serbia	6,605,000	3,759	3,705	0	104	1,783	60	1,342	7,134
Slovakia	5,427,000	11,333	11,191	0	145	485	135	2,662	21,419
Slovenia	2,124,000	1,735	1,722	0	22	1,233	24	522	2,700
Spain	48,693,000	125,359	124,427	3	2,299	391	1,369	38,040	208,794
Sweden	10,549,000	22,465	22,383	0	311	471	274	6,098	34,215
Switzerland	8,961,000	20,367	20,180	2	356	444	251	6,542	33,366
Ukraine	37,860,000	102,972	100,478	-5	1,698	377	1,164	25,530	173,551

Oceania

Country	Population	Peak	Publishers	Increase (%)	Baptized	Ratio	Cong.	Bible studies	Memorial attendance
American Samoa[note 12]	44,000	152	136	10	5	324	3	126	545
Australia	27,317,000	71,726	71,140	1	1,696	384	717	20,683	115,566
Chuuk[note 19]	54,000	32	28	22	6	1,929	2	56	143
Cook Islands[note 20]	20,000	204	194	5	6	103	3	91	572
Fiji	901,000	3,001	2,907	-1	171	310	59	3,561	12,047
Guam[note 12]	174,000	761	726	5	11	240	9	555	1,650
Kiribati	134,000	155	137	41	29	978	2	260	430
Kosrae[note 19]	8,000	10	9	0	0	889	1	24	45
Marshall Islands	55,000	136	131	7	5	420	4	242	651
Nauru	12,000	17	14	-7	1	857	1	15	154
New Caledonia[note 21]	269,000	2,745	2,660	1	108	101	34	2,516	7,833
New Zealand	5,339,000	14,732	14,576	1	411	366	168	5,673	27,088
Niue[note 20]	2,000	20	19	0	0	105	1	9	68
Palau	18,000	77	70	-3	1	257	2	124	182
Papua New Guinea	11,782,000	5,130	4,921	4	176	2,394	170	7,854	42,591
Pohnpei[note 19]	34,000	57	53	6	1	642	1	97	226
Rota[note 22]	2,000	4	2	-50	0	1,000	1	2	2
Saipan[note 22]	43,000	236	229	7	17	188	3	187	546
Samoa	206,000	600	558	6	41	369	12	615	2,587
Solomon Islands	757,000	1,904	1,681	-2	104	450	46	1,719	10,678
Tahiti[note 8]	282,000	3,305	3,202	1	90	88	46	2,654	10,242
Tinian[note 22]	2,000	10	10	0	0	200	1	12	26
Tonga	104,000	256	210	4	11	495	3	196	594
Tuvalu	10,000	103	57	14	0	175	1	34	222
Vanuatu	328,000	858	642	8	43	511	13	1,034	4,046
Wallis and Futuna[note 8]	11,000	84	77	24	0	143	2	76	277
Yap[note 19]	11,000	32	31	0	0	355	1	124	161

Other

See also: Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses

Countries where Jehovah's Witnesses' activities are banned

In addition to the published figures for individual countries, statistics are also published collectively for countries where Jehovah's Witnesses operate covertly under ban,^[7][8] including several Islamic and communist states.

"Other Lands"	Peak	Publishers	Increase (%)	Baptized	Cong.	Bible studies	Memorial attendance
33	214,313	210,515	1.4	3,901	2,859	85,992	329,181

There are 36 sovereign states not specifically listed in the Watch Tower Society's reported statistics:

•  Afghanistan
•  Algeria
•  Bahrain
•  Bhutan
•  Brunei
•  China
•  Comoros
•  Djibouti
•  Egypt
•  Eritrea
•  Iran
•  Iraq
•  Jordan
•  Kuwait
•  Laos
•  Lebanon
•  Libya
•  Maldives
•  Mauritania
•  Morocco
•  North Korea
•  Oman
•  Qatar
•  Russia
•  Saudi Arabia
•  Singapore
•  Somalia
•  Syria
•  Tajikistan
•  Tunisia
•  Turkmenistan
•  United Arab Emirates
•  Uzbekistan
•  Vatican City
•  Vietnam
•  Yemen

Total

"Lands"	Peak	Publishers	Increase (%)	Baptized	Cong.	Bible studies	Memorial attendance	Memorial partakers
240	9,043,460	8,828,124	2.4	296,267	118,767	7,480,146	21,119,442	22,312

See also

• Demographics of Jehovah's Witnesses

Notes

1. The number of people in the general population per publisher.
2. Portuguese autonomous region
3. Overseas department of France
4. Constituency of Mauritius
5. British overseas territory
6. The western islands of the Azores are located on the North American Plate in the Atlantic Ocean; the remaining islands are located on the Azores microplate independent of Europe and Africa. F.O. Marques, J.C. Catalão, C.DeMets, A.C.G. Costa, A. Hildenbrand (2013). "GPS and tectonic evidence for a diffuse plate boundary at the Azores Triple Junction" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 381: 177–187. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.051. A comparison of the GPS velocities of Pico, Faial, S. Jorge and Terceira islands with the Nubia–Eurasia velocity in the Azores region (ca. 4.5 mm/yr, DeMets et al., 2010) shows that the islands belong to neither the Eurasia nor Nubia plates.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
7. Danish autonomous territory
8. French overseas collectivity
9. Constituent country of the Netherlands
10. Special municipality of the Netherlands
11. Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis
12. US insular area
13. Chinese special administrative region
14. Disputed territory comprising West Bank and Gaza Strip under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority and the Hamas Government in Gaza
15. Disputed territory administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan) and claimed by the People's Republic of China.
16. Island incorporating England, Scotland and Wales
17. Island incorporating the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
18. Disputed territory within Serbia
19. Federated States of Micronesia
20. Self-governing in free association with New Zealand
21. Sui generis collectivity of France
22. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (US insular area)

Sources

• 2023 Country and Territory Reports, Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania.