Salesian Statistics

Salesian Statistics
 
Writing from the 27th General Chapter of the SDBs, Fr. Mike Pace, our delegate from the Eastern Province, posted at his blog today (3/7/14):

Today we received a ton of stats on the Salesian congregation. This mammoth project was presented by Fr Horacio Lopez SDB and Bro Marco Bay, SDB, Prof of Statistics at the Salesian Pontifical University How many SDB are there on the planet   15,298  50% of the entire Congregation lives in 5 countries   India (2,646), Italy (2,193),  Spain (1,077), Poland (939), Brazil (677)   Where does the New Rochelle Province rank with our 231 confreres?  13th.  But that's ok. In  Italy, 13 is a lucky  number.   Fr. Mike doesn't identify the graph, but I hazard the guess that it shows the relative numbers of the SDBs on 5 continents (the Italians seem to have trouble counting to 6 and always give North America short shrift).