Top Worldwide Publisher Rankings Starting At 1 + 2 Jehovah's Witnesses

And this was a surprise to me... 

From The Top 10 List Of The 

Largest Magazine Circulation Worldwide

12,000 people claiming to be in the remnant of anointed  of the 144,000 in 2013
(partook of the memorial emblems of unleavened bread and wine in 2013)
 They claim Armageddon would happen before these people died .  
But those who were at an age of understanding in 1914  how many 100 year olds do you know?
That number should be going down as the average age of the oldest among them would be 100 years of age .


So if anything it should be shrinking NOT going up ,
after all they are the remnant of anointed brothers of christ going into the 144,000 who will rule with christ.


http://www.clicktop10.com/2013/07/top-10-most-popular-magazines-of-2013/

As of August 2012, Jehovah's Witnesses report an average membership of approximately 7.53 million actively involved in preaching, with a peak of 7.78 million.^[1][2] Jehovah's Witnesses have an active presence in most countries, though they do not form a large part of the population of any country.^[3]

To be counted, an individual must be a publisher, and report some amount of time preaching to non-members, normally at least an hour per month. Under certain circumstances, such as chronic and debilitating illness, members may report increments of 15 minutes. Jehovah's Witnesses' preaching activity is self-reported, and members are directed to submit a 'Field Service Report' each month. Baptized members who fail to submit a report every month are termed 'irregular'. Those who do not submit a report for six continuous months are termed 'inactive'.^[4] In 2012, these reports indicated a total of more than 1.7 billion hours of preaching, and an increase of 268,777 baptized members. Over 8.7 million were also reported as studying the Bible in their homes with Jehovah's Witnesses,^[1] which includes Bible studies conducted by Witness parents with their children.^[5][6]

Because Jehovah's Witnesses only count as members those who submit reports for preaching activity, secular estimates of their numbers are typically higher than those indicated in the Witnesses' official membership statistics.^[2] For example, Jehovah's Witnesses report approximately 1.2 million active publishers in the United States; however, an academic study at Trinity College (Connecticut) based on the American Religious Identification Survey conducted in 2008, reported an estimated 1.914 million adults in the US who self-identify as Jehovah's Witnesses.^[7] Their official statistics indicate membership according to territories, some of which are not independent countries.

The number of people who attend Jehovah's Witnesses' annual commemoration of the Memorial of Christ's death (also termed the Lord's Evening Meal) includes active Witnesses, their children, and others who are invited to attend. According to the 2013 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, worldwide attendance at the 2012 celebration of the Memorial was 19,013,343.^[1] In the United States, 2.52 million people were present. In Zambia 738,978 attended, or 1 person for every 19 in the population. Of those attending worldwide, over 12,000 partook of the memorial emblems of unleavened bread and wine.^[1] Those who partake profess to be of the 144,000 "anointed" and hope to go to heaven, based on their interpretation of Revelation 14:1.

Congregations are generally organized geographically, and members are requested to attend the Kingdom Hall to which their neighborhood has been assigned, resulting in an ethnic mix generally representative of local population, though congregations based on language and ethnicity have also been formed.^[8][9][10] In the United States, 37% of adults who self-identify as Jehovah's Witnesses are African Americans. This is the highest proportion among the 22 largest religious identifications in the United States.^[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses are members of an international religious organization who believe themselves to be the restoration of first-century Christianity. Founded in the 1870s by Charles Taze Russell, official membership now stands at over 6 million. They are known for their extensive preaching and publishing activities, with The Watchtower and Awake!religious magazines being their most widely known publications. Headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, they are directed by a Governing Body.

Jehovah's Witnesses are socially conservative. Being politically neutral, they have been persecuted by various governments, notably by the Nazi government, with many sent toconcentration camps. They have been instrumental in establishing religious freedoms in various countries. Their unique stand on refusing blood transfusions has also garnered publicity and controversy.

Since their foundation, they have been concerned with the second advent of Jesus. Initially holding many similar views of other 19th century Adventists groups, such as the Millerites, they have since developed their own uniqueeschatology.

http://christianity.wikia.com/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses

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Rank (2012)	Rank (2011)	Publishing Company (Group or Division)	Country Publ. Company	Mother Corporation or Owner	Country Mother Corporation	2012 Revenue in $M	2011 Revenue in $M
1	1	Pearson	UK	Pearson (corp.)	UK	$9,158	$8,411
2	2	Reed Elsevier	UK/NL/US	Reed Elsevier (corp.)	UK/NL/US	$5,934	$5,686
3	3	ThomsonReuters	US	The Woodbridge Company Ltd.	Canada	$5,386	$5,435
4	4	Wolters Kluwer	NL	Wolters Kluwer	NL	$4,766	$4,360
5	8	Random House	Germany	Bertelsmann AG	Germany	$3,328	$2,274
6	5	Hachette Livre	France	Lagardère	France	$2,833	$2,649
7	6	Grupo Planeta	Spain	Grupo Planeta	Spain	$2,597	$2,304
8	7	McGraw-Hill Education	US	The McGrawHill companies	US	$2,292*	$2,292
9	9	Holtzbrinck	Germany	Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck	Germany	$2,220	$1,952
10	10	Scholastic (corp.)	US	Scholastic	US	$2,148	$1,906
11	11	Cengage	US	Apax Partners et al.	US/Canada	$1,993	$1,876
12	12	Wiley	US	Wiley	US	$1,783	$1,743
13	13	De Agostini Editore	Italy	Gruppo De Agostini	Italy	$1,724*	$1,724
14	14	Shueisha	Japan	Hitotsubashi Group	Japan	$1,464	$1,714
15	15	Kodansha	Japan	Kodansha	Japan	$1,368	$1,551
16	19	Springer Science and Business Media	Germany	EQT and GIC Investors	Sweden, Singapore	$1,298	$1,138
17	18	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	US	Education Media and Publishing Group Limited	US/Cayman Islands	$1,286	$1,295
18	16	Shogakukan	Japan	Hitotsubashi Group	Japan	$1,254	$1,444
19	20	Harper Collins	US	News Corporation	US	$1,189	$1,100 (est.)
20	21	Informa	UK	Informa plc	UK	$1,126	$1,069
21	23	Oxford University Press	UK	Oxford University	UK	$1,125	$1,004
22	NEW	China Publishing Group Corporate	China (PR)	Government; partly publicly listed	China (PR)	$1,104	n/a
23	NEW	Phoenix Publishing and Media Company	China (PR)	Government; partly publicly listed	China (PR)	$1,076	n/a
24	26	Kadokawa Publishing	Japan	Kadokawa Holdings Inc.	Japan	$1,000	$904
25	24	Grupo Santillana	Spain	PRISA	Spain	$985	$936
26	25	Bonnier	Sweden	The Bonnier Group	Sweden	$968	$909
27	22	Gakken	Japan	Gakken Co. Ltd.	Japan	$937	$1,043
28	28	Egmont Group	Denmark/Norway	Egmont International Holding A/S	Denmark	$792	$703
29	27	Simon & Schuster	US	CBS	US	$790	$787
30	37	China Education and Media Group (form. Higher Education Press)	China (PR)	China Education and Media Group	China (PR)	$702	$445
31	29	Woongjin ThinkBig	Korea	Woongjin Holding	Korea	$667	$685
32	31	Klett	Germany	Klett Gruppe	Germany	$604	$594
33	32	Cornelsen	Germany	Cornelsen	Germany	$577	$558
34	17	Readers Digest	US	RDA Holding Co.	US	$533	$1,438
35	33	Mondadori	Italy	The Mondadori Group	Italy	$511	$506
36	34	Messagerie / GeMS (Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol)	Italy	Messagerie Italiane	Italy	$491	$494
37	39	Media Participations	France	Media Participations	Belgium	$455	$442
38	35	Lefebvre-Sarrut	France	Frojal	France	$447	$467
39	40	Abril Educação	Brazil	Abril group	Brazil	$432	$411
40	36	Harlequin	Canada	Torstar Corp.	Canada	$428	$450
41	37	Sanoma	Finland	Sanoma WSOY	Finland	$426	$446
42	41	Perseus	USA	Perseus	USA	$425	$350
43	NEW	Cambridge University Press	UK	Cambridge University Press	UK	$396	n/a
44	42	Westermann Verlagsgruppe	Germany	Medien Union (Rheinland-Pfalz Gruppe)	Germany	$361	$339
45	43	La Martinière Groupe	France	La Martinière Groupe	France	$351	$335
46	NEW	Flammarion	France	Madrigall	France	$349	$360
47	30	RCS Libri	Italy	RCS Media Group	Italy	$333	$667
48	46	Groupe Gallimard	France	Madrigall	France	$329*	$329
49	48	Kyowon	Korea	Kyowon	Korea	$322	$298
50	44	Bungeishunju	Japan	n/a	Japan	$298	$331
51	51	Haufe Gruppe	Germany	Priavtely owned	Germany	$291	$269
52	49	Weka	Germany	Weka Firmengruppe	Germany	$258	$282
53	NEW	OLMA Media Group	Russia	n/a		$257	n/a
54	47	Shinchosha	Japan	Privately owned	Japan	$245	$319
55	54	EKSMO	Russia	Privately owned	Russia	$232	$195
56	excl.	Editions Atlas	France	Gruppo De Agostini	Italy	$230	n/a
57	50	Saraiva	Brazil	Saraiva	Brazil	$230	$267
58	53	Groupe Albin Michel	France	Groupe Albin Michel	France	$224	$216
59	52	Editora FTD	Brazil	Editora FTD	Brazil	$198	$226
60	45	AST	Russia	Privately owned	Russia	$194	$330

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