Currently (early 2014) there are almost 8million active witnesses of Jehovah in the world, preaching in almost 300 different lands, and offering literature, videos, and Bible studies in 100's of different spoken and signed languages.
They willingly do this in obedience to Jesus' command at Matthew 28:19,20, volunteering their own money, time and energy to contact as many people as possible with the good news of God's Kingdom and offering free home Bible studies.
In 2012 well over 7 and a half million members were actively witnessing worldwide about God's Kingdom and his righteousness. (Matthew 6:33, 24:14; 28:19,20)
I remember a friend asking me, on finding out I was going to a small Assembly, how many were going to be there. He thought about 150. He was a little surprised when I said the figure would be over 1,000 from ten different congregations. He had thought that, although we seem to be at people's doors frequently, to be very few in number. While that is true in some places, in other areas the Witnesses are well represented numerically.
In 2011, 7,659,019 publishers of the good news reported from 236 lands and islands. (In comparison, there were 205 countries represented at the Olympics recently.) All these Christians give willingly of their time and resources to try and help people from all backgrounds to hear The Bible's message. Literature is now available in 630 languages including for those who are blind or deaf.
In 2010 there were over 18 million worldwide in attendance at the annual observance of the memorial of the death of Jesus Christ.
As of September 2009, the exact number was 7,313,173.
When I first heard Bible truth from the witnesses in the year 1995, there were only 3 million active witnesses worldwide (if I remember correctly).
Jehovah's Witnesses do not count in their totals the number of meeting attenders or visitors, but only those who are actively sharing the good news about God's Kingdom (ruled by Jesus Christ) and witnessing regularly about their Grand Creator and Instructor, Almighty Jehovah God. (Psalm 83:18)
As of 2015, there are 8,220,105 active Witnesses. On the JW.org site, under "About Us", an article explains the gist of how this is calculated, not according to meeting attendees, nor by means of people who recognize themselves as Witnesses, but rather by people who are actively preaching and participating in spiritual activity.
Or better said by the article itself:
"We count as Jehovah's Witnesses only those who are actively preaching the good news of God's Kingdom each month. (Matthew 24:14) This includes those who have been baptized as Witnesses as well as those who, though not yet baptized, qualify to share in the preaching work."
"Government census bureaus often determine their figures by asking people which religious group they identify themselves with. For example, the U.S. Census Bureau states that their surveys "sought to determine whether the respondents regarded themselves as adherents of a religious community," adding that the resulting figures are "subjective rather than objective." By contrast, we count as Jehovah's Witnesses only those who preach to others and who report that activity, not those who merely identify themselves as Witnesses."
The article in question contains other details about this question, so please have a look for more information.
As of 2021, there are approximately 8.7 million Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide. They are known for their active proselytizing and door-to-door evangelism efforts.
At the moment, there is around 7 million Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide and growing more and more every year.
There are currently 41 Assembly Halls of Jehovah's Witnesses in use in the US, with sevaral more being planned. There is also a District Convention Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in North Miami, Florida.
There are 195 countries in the world.
As of now, there is no definitive answer to how many Listin's there are in the whole world. Lists of individuals are not publicly available due to privacy concerns and data protection laws.
It is impossible for any number of people to physically circle the entire world since the Earth is a sphere.
It is estimated that there are around 7.9 billion people in the world, and each person typically has one brain. Therefore, there are roughly 7.9 billion brains in the whole world.
About seven and a half million.
According to the 2010 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide there was a peakof 218,698 Witnesses in Japan reporting time spent preaching.
Many will argue but it is Jehovahs Witnesses. Ps 83:18
you know seventh day adventist and Mormons and jehovahs witnesses don't probably about 15millionType your answer here...
How many Jehovah's Witnesses are there in Botswana: There are an average 2,121 and a total of 46 kingdom Halls, also an average number of bible studies conducted 3,878 for the year of 2012
There are billions of Jehovahs witnesses around the world you will find us everywhere in every country you could name, Afghanistan, China, US, Russia, Germany, Japan, Puerto Rico, Great Britian, Mexico, Affrica, anywhere that theres life.
It depends where in the world you are focusing? (Asia, North America, Isanbul???) In America you saw the genesis of many different christian sects such as mormonism, jehovahs witnesses, seventh day adventists.
The cumulative amount since the Witnesses started is not available. The 2013 annual report gives a peak figure of Witnesses in Israel for the 2012 service year of 1379. Not all of that number is necessarily Jews as it may include non Jews that are Witnesses that live in Israel.
There are many accounts of what Jehovah's Witnesses endured in Nazi Germany. Since they refused to conform to Hitlers standards they became the targets of bitter persecution and many thousands were imprisoned and killed. For specific stories click on the links below.
I don't know how many are in California but at the end of 2009 in the United States as a whole there were 1,154,275 Jehovah's Witnesses.
I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and I know of at least two more, however, that is an ever changing number given the fluidity of this site and it's members. Last year at this same time, it seemed that there were more than there are now.
Why don't you ask one of Jehovah's Witnesses the answer up there ^ is not true. I am a Jehovah's Wittiness and most Jehovah's witnesses do not set out to be on the governing body they set out to serve Jehovah God , to the best of their ability and as for how it is done i do not know but you could call the branch of Jehovah's Witnesses (the phone number is on the back of most of their books and magazines)The members of Jehovah's Witness governing body must be male with many years experience in Christian service. They are not voted into the position by Jehovah's Witnesses as a whole.