There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. II, preface (1898)

Jehovah’s Witnesses are members of a movement whose adherents believe it to be the restoration of first-century Christianity. The religion is based on the beliefs of Charles Taze Russell, and was further developed by Joseph Rutherford. This map is from World Christian database estimates, which differ significantly from data on the Jehovah’s Witnesses own website (Information source: Wikipedia)

Colour Key

North America

Central America

Caribbean

South America

Northern Europe

Central Europe

Eastern Europe

Southern Europe

Southern Africa

Northern Africa

Western Africa

Central Africa

Eastern Africa

Russia

Central Asia

Western Asia

Southern Asia

Eastern Asia

Australasia

Southeastern Asia

Pacific Oceania

Reference Map

Map No.

723

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Technical Notes

Territory size shows the proportion of the world’s Jehova’s witnesses living there.

Data sources
The World Christian Database (WCD) was our main source of data for this series of religion maps compiled in 2009. Please find further information about the data and its compilation in the Worldmapper archive.

Further adjustments to the data were made in March 2018, first and foremost to account for major geopolitical changes, and adjusting to reflect the changing population distributions. We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

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