Bahá’í World/Volume 23/Statistics

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STATISTICS[edit]

General Statistics

Worldwide Bahá’í population More than 5 million
Countries/dependent territories where the Bahá’í Faith is established 189 countries/ 46 territories
Continental Counsellors 72
Auxiliary Board members serving throughout the world 846
National/Regional Spiritual Assemblies 172
Local Spiritual Assemblies 17,780
Localities where Bahá’ís reside 119,276
Tribes, races and ethnic groups represented in the Bahá’í community 2,112
Languages into which Bahá’u’lláh’s writings have been translated 802
Bahá’í Publishing Trusts 30

All statistics as of May 1994 [Page 318]

Geographic distribution of Local Spiritual Assemblies by continent[edit]

  • Africa 5071
  • Europe 914
  • Australasia 891
  • Asia 6193
  • Americas 4711

Growth in the number of localities where Bahá’ís reside[edit]

(Graph showing the number of localities where Bahá’ís reside from 1954 to 1990, with the vertical axis representing the number of localities from 0 to 120,000.) [Page 319]

Growth in the number of National and Regional Spiritual Assemblies[edit]

Social and Economic Development[edit]

Bahá’í radio stations 6
Bahá’í schools Academic: 178
Tutorial: 488
Bahá’í literacy programs 186
Bahá’í conservation/environment projects 52
Bahá’í agricultural projects 21
Bahá’í health projects 56
Bahá’í women and youth projects 52
Other Bahá’í development projects 305
Total number of Bahá’í social and economic development projects in 1992 1,344

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Geographic distribution of social and economic development projects by continent[edit]

Africa 286
Europe 30
Australasia 117
Asia 532
Americas 379