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The 2019 BSA annual report seems to be remarkably sparse on numbers. Anyone have any pointers to what the numbers were? We could add up the numbers of total youth members in each of the regional reports, but, there is no breakdown by division. That total comes to 2,118,449 which seems odd given
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I'm intending to drop the membership numbers from the table for years 1960 until 1998 on two grounds (1) they are estimates and (2) the source is not very reliable. Exact figures from annual reports do seem to have existed; see for instance 1953 and 1954 figures from
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that the previous year was 2,076,716 (and that the trend has been a decline). If they had actually gone up, I would expect them to have trumpeted it. I note that the LDS members would be in this total since they did not leave until the beginning of this year. --
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I've added the 2020 figures which are a shocking drop and probably a combo of the LDS leaving and the pandemic. This should be annotated once we have some reliable sources. --
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I think that you are correct on the two main causes. Probably would have been larger if the addition of girls to the big programs didn't add some.
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Found the report to the nation for 2023 which has the 2022 figures. Still need the 2021 figures.
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I haven't been able to track down any reliable numbers. There was something on the scouter forum
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