Editing Scouting (section)

===Membership===
As of 2019, there are over 46 million registered Scouts<ref name="WOSM_Census_2019">{{cite web|url=https://www.scout.org/WOSM-census|title=WOSM Membership Census|website=World scouting|publisher=World Organization of the Scout Movement|access-date=November 28, 2021}}</ref> and  as of 2020 9 million registered Guides<ref name="memberwagggs">{{cite web |year=2021 |url=https://www.wagggs.org/en/resources/membership-fee-policy-2022-2023/ |title=Membership Fee Policy 2022-2023 |publisher=World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts |access-date=November 28, 2021}}</ref> around the world, from 216 countries and territories.

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|+ Top 20 countries with Scouts and Guides, sorted by total male and female membership of all organisations.<ref group="n.b.">Full tables on [[List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members]] and [[List of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts members]].</ref><ref name="SRTW1990"/><ref>{{cite book |year=1979 |title=Scouting 'round the World. Le scoutisme à travers le monde |edition=11th |publisher=World Scout Bureau |isbn=978-2-88052-001-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |year=1997 |title=Trefoil Round the World |url=https://archive.org/details/trefoilroundworl00worl |url-access=registration |edition=11th |publisher=World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, World Bureau |isbn=978-0-900827-75-4}}</ref>
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!Country
!Membership <ref name="WOSM_Census_2019"/><ref name="memberwagggs"/>
!Population<br />participation
!Scouting<br />introduced
!Guiding<br />introduced
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|Indonesia ||align="right" |24,760,000{{pad|50px}} ||9.2% ||1912 ||1912
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|India ||align="right" |5,930,000{{pad|50px}} ||0.4% ||1909 ||1911
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|United States ||align="right" |4,910,000{{pad|50px}} ||1.8% ||1910 ||1912
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|Philippines ||align="right" |3,340,000{{pad|50px}} ||3.2% ||1910 ||1918
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|[[Kenya]]|| align="right" |2,400,000{{pad|50px}} ||4.2% ||1910 ||1920
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|[[Bangladesh]]|| align="right" |2,090,000{{pad|50px}} ||1.3% ||1914 ||1928
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|[[Scouting and Guiding in the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] ||align="right" |940,000{{pad|50px}} ||1.8% ||1907 ||1909
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|Nigeria ||align="right" |870,000{{pad|50px}} ||0.4% ||1915 ||1919
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|Pakistan ||align="right" |830,000{{pad|50px}}||0.4% ||1909 ||1911
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|Thailand ||align="right" |810,000{{pad|50px}} ||1.2% ||1911 ||1957
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|Tanzania ||align="right" |630,000{{pad|50px}} ||1.0% ||1917 || 1928
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|Uganda ||align="right" |570,000{{pad|50px}} ||1.3% ||1915 ||1914
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|Malawi ||align="right" |430,000{{pad|50px}} ||2.2% ||1931 ||1924
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|Malaysia||align="right" |400,000{{pad|50px}} ||1.2% || 1908||1916
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|Turkey ||align="right" |290,000{{pad|50px}} ||0.4% ||1909 ||
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|Germany<ref group="n.b.">Including 90,000 non-aligned Scouts and Guides, see [[Scouting in Germany]]</ref>||align="right" |250,000{{pad|50px}} ||0.3% ||1910 ||1912
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|Italy<ref group="n.b.">Including 30,000 non-aligned Scouts and Guides, see [[Scouting in Italy]]</ref> ||align="right" |230,000{{pad|50px}} ||0.4% ||1910 ||1912
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|Canada ||align="right" |220,000{{pad|50px}} ||0.5% ||1908 ||1910
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|France<ref group="n.b.">Including 60,000 non-aligned Scouts and Guides, see [[Scouting in France]]</ref> ||align="right" |210,000{{pad|50px}} ||0.3% ||1910 ||1911
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|Belgium<ref group="n.b.">Including 5,000 non-aligned Scouts and Guides, see [[Scouting in Belgium]]</ref> ||align="right" |170,000{{pad|50px}} ||1.5% ||1911 ||1915
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