How Strong Is Your Scouting Organization?
BILL NELSON (nelsonb@AZTEC.ASU.EDU)
Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:58:58 -0700
ROUGH DRAFT, PLEASE COMMENT. Is this information of any value?
One indication (certainly not the only indication) of the strength of=
a national Scouting organization
Is the size of the per capita percentage. Per capita percentage, for=
this purpose, is the=20
WOSM membership number divided by the population of the country. =
=20
As of June 1998 there are 150 countries with WOSM recognized National=
Scout
Organizations. The countries that had population figures are listed b=
elow.
Membership: The membership which is shown in these 149 countries repr=
esents only the
members (youth and adults) of the World Organization of the Scout Mov=
ement (WOSM), which in
most countries includes boys and girls. In some countries - mostly in=
Europe - the national
organization is larger than indicated here because it includes girls =
who are members of the World
Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
WOSM Membership figures from http://www.scout.org except for BSA figu=
res=20
which are from BSA National's publication ProSpeak as of 8/31/98 (WOS=
M numbers were about 1 million
more). Country population figures are from:
U.S. Bureau of the Census, International Data Base and The World F=
actbook, 1997.
Ranking Country Membership Country Pop. Per=20
Capita
1 Indonesia 9,896,357 212,941,810 4.65%
2 Philippines 2,888,265 77,725,862 3.72%
3 Kiribati 1,798 83,976 2.14%
4 Thailand 1,050,365 60,037,366 1.75%
5 Dominica 1,100 65,777 1.67%
6 Maldives 4,543 290,211 1.57%
7 Liechtenstein 496 31,717 1.56%
8 United States 4,042,943 270,311,758 1.50% BSA Only
9 Ireland 51,903 3,619,480 1.43%
10 Luxembourg 5,853 425,017 1.38%
11 Barbados 3,041 259,025 1.17%
12 Fiji 9,205 802,611 1.15%
13 Grenada 1,052 96,217 1.09%
14 United Kingdom 630,954 58,970,119 1.07%
15 Denmark 53,258 5,333,617 1.00%
16 New Zealand 33,673 3,625,388 0.93%
17 Belgium 92,691 10,174,922 0.91%
18 Canada 272,070 30,675,398 0.89%
19 Gambia 11,056 1,291,858 0.86%
20 Brunei Darussalam 2,617 315,292 0.83%
21 Sweden 71,033 8,886,738 0.80%
22 San Marino 193 24,894 0.78%
23 Finland 38,132 5,149,242 0.74%
24 Qatar 5,096 697,126 0.73%
25 Malta 2,772 379,563 0.73%
26 Belize 1,643 230,160 0.71%
27 Cyprus 5,013 748,982 0.67%
28 Australia 124,424 18,613,087 0.67%
29 Iceland 1,692 271,033 0.62%
30 Bangladesh 784,054 127,567,002 0.61%
31 Suriname 2,601 427,980 0.61%
32 Kenya 168,021 28,337,071 0.59%
33 Bahamas 1,644 279,833 0.59%
34 Korea, Republic of 263,796 46,416,796 0.57%
35 St. Vincent and the 676 119,818 0.56%
Grenadines
36 Trinidad & Tobago 6,210 1,116,595 0.56%
37 Portugal 52,208 9,927,556 0.53%
38 Swaziland 4,994 966,462 0.52%
39 Poland 187,022 38,606,922 0.48%
40 Malaysia 93,449 20,932,901 0.45%
41 Tunisia 40,920 9,380,404 0.44%
42 Switzerland 31,553 7,260,357 0.43%
43 Norway 18,956 4,419,955 0.43%
44 Comoros 2,200 545,528 0.40%
45 Oman 9,495 2,363,591 0.40%
46 Netherlands 61,196 15,731,112 0.39%
47 Israel 21,920 5,643,966 0.39%
48 Slovenia 7,301 1,971,739 0.37%
49 Czech Republic 35,610 10,286,470 0.35%
50 Saint Lucia 516 152,335 0.34%
51 China, Scouts of 72,927 21,908,135 0.33%
52 Pakistan 441,677 135,135,195 0.33%
53 Botswana 4,660 1,448,454 0.32%
54 Togo 15,759 4,905,827 0.32%
55 Jordan 14,238 4,434,978 0.32%
56 Gabon 3,835 1,207,844 0.32%
57 Kuwait 6,061 1,913,285 0.32%
58 Singapore 10,392 3,490,356 0.30%
59 Bahrain 1,820 616,342 0.30%
60 Uganda 65,152 22,167,195 0.29%
61 Saudi Arabia 54,994 20,785,955 0.26%
62 Panama 7,111 2,735,943 0.26%
63 Mauritius 2,998 1,168,256 0.26%
64 United Arab Emirates 5,824 2,303,088 0.25%
65 Lebanon 8,450 3,505,794 0.24%
66 Chile 35,180 14,787,781 0.24%
67 Spain 89,256 39,133,996 0.23%
68 Libyan Arab 12,902 5,690,727 0.23%
Jamahiriya=20
69 Central African Repub 7,000 3,375,771 0.21%
70 Mongolia 5,311 2,578,530 0.21%
71 Italy 115,449 56,782,748 0.20%
72 Austria 16,455 8,133,087 0.20%
73 France 117,531 58,804,944 0.20%
74 Japan 244,827 125,931,533 0.19%
75 Hungary 19,809 10,208,127 0.19%
76 Monaco 62 32,035 0.19%
77 Benin 11,587 6,100,799 0.19%
78 Macedonia 3,500 2,009,387 0.17%
79 Germany 133,942 82,079,454 0.16%
80 Greece 17,378 10,662,138 0.16%
81 India 1,591,083 984,003,683 0.16%
82 Costa Rica 5,688 3,604,642 0.16%
83 Jamaica 4,133 2,634,678 0.16%
84 Sierra Leone 7,963 5,080,004 0.16%
85 Haiti 9,859 6,780,501 0.15%
86 Sri Lanka 25,288 18,933,558 0.13%
87 Tanzania 40,809 30,608,769 0.13%
88 Congo 62,842 49,000,511 0.13%
89 Burundi 6,661 5,537,387 0.12%
90 Yugoslavia 12,080 10,526,135 0.11%
91 Egypt 74,598 66,050,004 0.11%
92 Nepal 24,889 23,698,421 0.11%
93 Argentina 35,633 36,265,463 0.10%
94 Burkina Faso 10,165 11,266,393 0.09%
95 Bolivia 6,859 7,826,352 0.09%
96 Liberia 2,418 2,771,901 0.09%
97 Uruguay 2,841 3,284,841 0.09%
98 Namibia 1,378 1,622,328 0.08%
99 Slovakia 4,510 5,392,982 0.08%
100 Croatia 3,865 4,671,584 0.08%
101 Honduras 4,319 5,861,955 0.07%
102 El Salvador 4,180 5,752,067 0.07%
103 Estonia 1,016 1,421,335 0.07%
104 Mauritania 1,779 2,511,473 0.07%
105 Rwanda 5,479 7,956,172 0.07%
106 Belarus 7,050 10,409,050 0.07%
107 Syrian Arab Republic 11,073 16,673,282 0.07%
108 Madagascar 8,857 14,462,509 0.06%
109 Senegal 5,882 9,723,149 0.06%
110 Mexico 59,531 98,552,776 0.06%
111 Guatemala 7,247 12,007,580 0.06%
112 Armenia 2035 3,421,775 0.06%
113 Papua New Guinea 2,599 4,599,785 0.06%
114 Iraq 12,000 21,722,287 0.06%
115 Angola 6,000 10,864,512 0.06%
116 Colombia 20,973 38,580,949 0.05%
117 Venezuela 12,371 22,803,409 0.05%
118 Nicaragua 2,298 4,583,379 0.05%
119 South Africa 21,323 42,834,520 0.05%
120 Peru 12,276 26,111,110 0.05%
121 Guinea 3,470 7,477,110 0.05%
122 Ecuador 5,536 12,336,572 0.04%
123 Zimbabwe 4,817 11,044,147 0.04%
124 Cameroon 6,535 15,029,433 0.04%
125 Morocco 12,304 29,114,497 0.04%
126 Nigeria 46,701 110,532,242 0.04%
127 C=F4te-d,Ivoire 6,436 15,446,231 0.04%
128 Lithuania 1,500 3,600,158 0.04%
129 Guyana 294 707,954 0.04%
130 Sudan 13,550 33,550,552 0.04%
131 Dominican Republic 3,200 7,998,766 0.04%
132 Yemen 6,481 16,387,963 0.04%
133 Chad 2,850 7,359,512 0.04%
134 Moldova, Republic of 1,540 4,457,729 0.03%
135 Brazil 58,493 169,806,557 0.03%
136 Latvia 801 2,385,396 0.03%
137 Algeria 10,000 30,480,793 0.03%
138 Zambia 3031 9,460,736 0.03%
139 Paraguay 1,240 5,291,020 0.02%
140 Romania 4,930 22,395,848 0.02%
141 Georgia 1,063 5,108,527 0.02%
142 Tajikistan 1,100 6,020,095 0.02%
143 Lesotho 371 2,089,829 0.02%
144 Turkey 11,252 64,566,511 0.02%
145 Ghana 3,186 18,497,206 0.02%
146 Niger 1,230 9,671,848 0.01%
147 Hong Kong (P.R.C.) 53,049 1,236,914,65 0.00%
