Below is a little blurb from CWN.
Jesuit order diminishing in numbers
Rome, Jun. 14, 2007
(CWNews.com) - The Jesuit order diminished in size by 364 men in 2006, the Fides news service reports.
In the last calendar year, 486 men joined the Society of Jesus. But 472 Jesuits died, and 378 men left the religious order, accounting for the drop in numbers.
There are 19,216 Jesuits in the world today, by the latest count. The average age among Jesuits worldwide is now over 57.
The spreadsheet below summarizes the figures in this story and calculates, based on the 2006 rate of decrease, that in 2061 the last Jesuit will die or leave the order.
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1 comment:
The average age of the Society of Jesus is predicted to decrease in coming years as more younger people enter. There is a big bubble in older guys at the moment because so many of them entered the novitiate after serving in the military during World War II.
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