Theos-Talk Archives (August 2007 Message tt00254)

Daniel,
Thanks for the information. This is useful, but it will be better if
we get membership number for each year. You can upload that statistics
to some web-page on your site, for future reference and research. 
It will be even better if entire annual reports are uploaded to the
web-site. Annual reports must be having other useful and important
information. Membership statistics according to state census may be
provided in a different table.
Anand

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "danielhcaldwell"
<danielhcaldwell@...> wrote:
>
> Anand,
> 
> Thanks for your question.  Dr. Gregory Tillett
> wrote the following on Theos-Talk in 2002:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> In researching the influence of Leadbeater on the Adyar TS, I 
> accumulated large amounts of membrship statistics and included an 
> appendix on membership figures in my PhD thesis. The following is a 
> brief summary of the figures. For all sorts of methodological reasons 
> (e.g. different "official" sources sometimes give different figures) 
> they cannot be regarded as definitive, and are drawn from a range of 
> sources (e.g. Annual Reports). I have figures for every year from 
> 1907-1983, but only give sample years below. No accurate records 
> exist for 1875-1906. Josphine Ransom estimate 10000 as the memebrship 
> in 1900.
> 
> Year
> 1907 14863
> 1910 20356
> 1915 25696
> 1920 36350
> 1925 41645
> 1928 45098
> 1930 39311
> 1935 30317
> 1940 23644
> 1945 29327
> 1950 32564
> 1955 32902
> 1960 33875
> 1965 31424
> 1970 31721
> 1975 34357
> 1980 34391
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Read more of Dr. Tillett's posting at:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/5012
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Daniel
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