Guiding and Girl Scouting Around the World |
Sandra's guide pages |
USA According to http://www.girlscouts.org/about/ , there are nearly 3.7 million Girl Scouts - 2.8 million girl members and 942,000 adult members. According to the CIA World Factbook the USA population is 278,058,881 (July 2001 est.) of which 51% are female, which means something like... 2.6% of the USA's female population are members of girl scouting. UK According to http://www.guides.org.uk/info/about/article.asp?sectionid=91&id=136 GirguidingUK has nearly 700,000 members. According to the CIA World Factbook the UK population is 59,647,790 (July 2001 est.) of which 51% are female, which means something like... 2.3% of the UK's female population are members of girlguiding. World According to http://www.wagggsworld.org/about/index.html there are "over 10 million" guides and girl scouts (in 140 countries) worldwide. According to the CIA World Factbook the world population is 6,157,400,560 of which about 50% are female, which means something like... 0.3% of the world's female population are members of guiding or girl scouting., |