AA MEMBERSHIP


The following material is from the official Web site
of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.
and is reprinted here with permission.
Because AA has never attempted to keep formal membership lists, it is extremely difficult to obtain completely accurate figures on total membership at any given time.

Some local groups are not listed with the U.S./Canada General Service Office.  Others do not provide membership data and thus are not recorded on the GSO computer records.

The membership figures listed below are based on reports to the GSO as of January 1, 2003,  plus an average allowance for groups that have not reported their membership. There is no practical way of counting members who are not affiliated with a local group.
 
 

Groups in U.S. 
51,537
Members in U.S.
1,168,990
Groups in Canada
4,903
Members in Canada
96,100
Groups Overseas
44,762
Members Overseas
760,140
Groups in Correctional Facilities (U.S. & Canada
2,566
Internationalists*
74
Lone Members**
214
Total Groups
103,768
Total Members
2,092,460
                                                           *Seagoing AAs (in Naval or Merchant Marine
                                                            service).  General Service Office staff members
                                                            correspond with these members and make it
                                                            possible for them to correspond with each other.
                                                            Internationalists have been responsible for
                                                            starting and encouraging local AA groups in
                                                            many ports.

                                                            **Men and women living in isolated areas
                                                            throughout the world (or in areas where it has
                                                            not been possible to form a local group) are
                                                            listed at the General Service Office as "Lone
                                                            Members."  Many achieved sobriety solely
                                                            through study of AA literature, and correspond
                                                            with GSO and with their counterparts in other
                                                            sections of the world.  In a number of cases,
                                                            notably U.S. military installations overseas,
                                                            "Loners" have been responsible for establishing
                                                            local groups.

In 2001, more than 7,500 AA members in the U.S. and Canada
participated in a random survey.
Such studies have been conducted every three years
     since 1968 by the General Service Office.
Visit www.aa.org to view and/or print a summary.

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