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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost ...   BB xxii, Foreword to Third Edition   Display entire Foreword to Third Edition
By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.


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... estimated membership of over two million.   BB p.162, A Vision For You (Note)   Go to page 162 in the Big Book
There is A.A. activity in approximately 150 countries, with an estimated membership of over two million.


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... estimated that 800 alcoholics were on their ...   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
By the end of 1939 it was estimated that 800 alcoholics were on their way to recovery.

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... estimated that over two million have recovered ...   12&12 p.15, Foreword (Note)
(*) In 2003, it is estimated that over two million have recovered through A.A.


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... estimated two million or more, with nearly ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
Since the third edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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