Every year John Roake, Chairman of the International Gliding Commission's Membership Committee, compiles the figures from member countries covering 12 years. This time John has added his comments at the bottom of the table which makes interesting reading. Country 1922 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Argentina 381 351 286 251 268 253 242 252 264 186 174 316 Australia 3661 3519 3532 3349 3240 3139 3089 2976 2785 2725 2673 2606 Austria 4130 4096 4038 3986 4028 3990 3965 3599 3690 3711 3724 3686 Belgium 1488 1561 1577 1580 1571 1557 1570 1591 1530 1520 1472 1916 Canada 1322 1288 1257 1292 1257 1319 1321 1313 1290