Membership
As of 2008, there are over 31 million registered Scouts and 10 million registered Guides around the world, from 216 countries and territories.
| Country | Membership | Scouting introduced |
Guiding introduced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 17,100,000 | 1912 | 1912 |
| United States | 7,500,000 | 1910 | 1912 |
| India | 4,150,000 | 1909 | 1911 |
| Philippines | 2,150,000 | 1910 | 1918 |
| Thailand | 1,300,000 | 1911 | 1957 |
| Bangladesh | 1,050,000 | 1920 | 1928 |
| United Kingdom | 1,000,000 | 1907 | 1909 |
| Pakistan | 575,000 | 1909 | 1911 |
| Kenya | 480,000 | 1910 | 1920 |
| Korea | 270,000 | 1922 | 1946 |
| Germany | 250,000 | 1910 | 1912 |
| Uganda | 230,000 | 1915 | 1914 |
| Italy | 220,000 | 1910 | 1912 |
| Canada | 220,000 | 1908 | 1910 |
| Japan | 200,000 | 1913 | 1919 |
| France | 200,000 | 1910 | 1911 |
| Belgium | 170,000 | 1911 | 1915 |
| Poland | 160,000 | 1910 | 1910 |
| Nigeria | 160,000 | 1915 | 1919 |
| Hong Kong | 160,000 | 1914 | 1916 |
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Famous quotes containing the word membership:
“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)
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