The Watchtower's membership is often distorted in the press, either to ridiculously small numbers, or threateningly large ones.
Children also make up a sizable number of the baptized figure.
Some of the more interesting parts of these statistics require a calculator. At first glance, therefore, it would seem that it takes 15 years for the average publisher to make one convert. Statistics are not available for how many books, magazines and resulting contributions the average publisher handles in that 15 years. A second glance will turn up a few factors which affect the figures. These hours are for 1994, and many of the baptisms are from preaching in previous years.