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    Worldwide Report: 1996 Grand Totals

    Watch Tower Branches: 104

    Number of Lands Reporting: 233

    Total Congregations: 81,908

    Worldwide Memorial Attendance: 12,921,933

    Memorial Partakers Worldwide: 8,757

    Peak of Publishers in Kingdom Service: 5,413,769

    Average Publishers Preaching Each Month: 5,167,258

    Percentage of Increase Over 1995: 4.4

    Total Number Baptized: 366,579

    Average Pioneer Publishers Each Month: 645,509

    Total Hours Spent in Field: 1,140,621,714

    Average Home Bible Studies Each Month: 4,855,030

    During the 1996 service year, the Watch Tower Society spent $60,932,324.26 in caring for special pioneers, missionaries, and traveling overseers in their field service assignments

    [Chart on page 34-41]

    1996 SERVICE YEAR REPORT OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES WORLDWIDE

    (See publication)