The UK national census allowed people to write in the name of a religious group that was not part of a list of the main religions; Christianity, Islam etc.
Among those who wrote in a group, people in England and Wales who identified as “Brahma Kumari” were the oldest group, at the average age of 61 years. The Office for National Statistics notes that the BKs are "a very small group of 235", accounting for less than 0.01% of the population. Although, in fairness, perhaps not all filled in their forms or identified themselves as such. However, I suspect we can accept it as an estimate of "the faithful ones".
By comparison to other small religious groups, the average age for Rastafarians was 42 years old (5,950 people); Jains 43 years old (24,990 people); Pagans 43 years (73,735 people); Scientologists 45 years old (1,860 people); Taoists 45 year old (3,725 people); and Druids 53 (2,490).
All those millions of pounds, and millions of hours running around VIP chasing, and their official number is still about the same as would come to a once a month sunday class in the 1980s. Clearly an ageing demographic is a design fault for a religion in which its god spirit does not encourage adherents to "go forth & multiple" biologically.
Of course, what that also hints at, is that unless Putin's ambitions in Ukraine incipiate a world war to end all wars that they've been praying for for 90 years, it's looking like that within a decade or so, the BKs will simply die out ... from old age.
Among those who wrote in a group, people in England and Wales who identified as “Brahma Kumari” were the oldest group, at the average age of 61 years. The Office for National Statistics notes that the BKs are "a very small group of 235", accounting for less than 0.01% of the population. Although, in fairness, perhaps not all filled in their forms or identified themselves as such. However, I suspect we can accept it as an estimate of "the faithful ones".
By comparison to other small religious groups, the average age for Rastafarians was 42 years old (5,950 people); Jains 43 years old (24,990 people); Pagans 43 years (73,735 people); Scientologists 45 years old (1,860 people); Taoists 45 year old (3,725 people); and Druids 53 (2,490).
All those millions of pounds, and millions of hours running around VIP chasing, and their official number is still about the same as would come to a once a month sunday class in the 1980s. Clearly an ageing demographic is a design fault for a religion in which its god spirit does not encourage adherents to "go forth & multiple" biologically.
Of course, what that also hints at, is that unless Putin's ambitions in Ukraine incipiate a world war to end all wars that they've been praying for for 90 years, it's looking like that within a decade or so, the BKs will simply die out ... from old age.