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NEW - ARIS 2008 result! Thanks to 'plockton' on OCMB we have the ARIS 2008 results for
Scientology. These were not included in the published table due to the
high error rate for small religious groups: Self-identified Scientology membership in USA: The PEW FORUM on Religion and Public Life US CENSUS data from 1990 and 2001 - shows 55,000 SCientologists - Image of page from Census Bureau HERE - LINK to US Gov Census data in US HERE PDF City University of New York survey results - 55,000 in US They call themselves Scientologists and claim their number is 8 million, In the Scientologists Online[tm] effort to create web sites that point at Scientology to raise google ratings, there are only about 16,000 names - and this is after a massive campaign to get as many scientologists as possible to have their own Scientology Online websites -- even people who don't have computers or email Of the 16,000, about 8500 are in the US and of those, 3700 in California, 1500 in Florida, and the rest scattered. In the great millenium event in LA last December Scientologists everywhere were heavily pushed to attend and to bring along family and friends. This was an event that all the hard core people in Southern California and many in other western states would want to attend. And they did not completely fill an arena set up for 14-16,000 people. And they doctored photos of the crowd to fill empty seats with swatches of people lifted from nearby, as Arnie Lerma discovered and revealed to the world and to Scientology's extreme embarrassment. Figure the 10,000 or whatever who attended in LA included nearly all the Sea Org Staff and other staff there plus a lot of the active hard core members, and you see how few of them there actually are. And probably somewhat over half the active Scns in the world are in the US, so you have to stretch to get up to 100,000 worldwide. The claims of "millions" are total PR fakery and always have been. City University of New York Survey says
50,000 Scientologists in US Scientology's claim's of "8 million members" is a lie! [ Webmaster's note, I was there then, and knew Mark Plummer] My point here is to emphasize that we must never let people pass on the phony inflated numbers that Scn PR has all the news media using. Scn derives much of its power to intimidate from people's mistaken belief that there are "millions" of Scn fanatics out there. Believe me, if there were millions they would be running the planet by now and we'd all be in prison or dead. by Ed - An Ex-ScientologistMay 14, 2003 - British Census Data from 2001 reports only 1,525 in Canada claim "scientology" "Those who worshipped at less conventional altars included 9,575 who cited Wicca as their religion; 1,135 Rastafarians; and 1,525 who follow Scientology, made famous by celebrities like Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Meanwhile, 4.8 million Canadians, including 770,850 Torontonians, claimed to follow no religion in 2001, compared with 3.3 million a decade earlier." Link to original Article HERE British Census Data reports only 1781 Scientologists in England and Wales! Dianetics Sales drop to 1971 Levels
Plockton posted :
Every once in a while I stumble across a new bit of data on the sales
of Dianetics. From the new site
http://www.scientology.org/en_US/news-media/stats/pg007.html
it appears they've updated the sales figures for Dianetics through
2002 (my last chart was posted 10/02, and I arbitrarily assumed the
data I had for 2002 was through 6/02). Using the new data, the chart
now look like this:
YEAR CUMULATIVE SALES SINCE # OF YEARS AVERAGE SALES
SALES OF LAST REPORT COVERED PER YEAR
DIANETICS DATE IN PERIOD FOR PERIOD
1970 1,375,000 -- 20.5 67,073
1975 2,490,000 1,115,000 5 223,000
1980 4,302,500 1,812,500 5 362,500
1985 7,140,000 2,837,500 5 567,500
1990 13,578,800 6,438,800 5 1,287,760
1992 15,230,708 1,651,908 2 825,954
1997 17,760,000 2,529,292 5 505,858
2002 19,041,000 1,281,000 5 256,200
As before, annual sales of "Dianetics" appears to have fallen to
approximately 1971-75 levels.
Comparing the 1996 and 2001 Australian Census: Females Males Total Aboriginal Traditional - 2480 2744 5224 Agnosticism - 7354 10213 17567 Atheism - 9219 15245 24464 No religion - 1314735 1542569 2857304 Paganism - 6612 4020 10632 Rastafarianism - 167 899 1066 Satanism - 383 1415 1798 Theosophy - 965 662 1627 Wiccan/Witchcraft - 6621 2134 8755 $cientology - 866 1166 2032 In the last census In 1996, $cientology had 1488 professed members, which was 0.01% of the population five years later, they have 2032 professed members, which is 0.01% of the population. October 2003 - UPDATE: Australian Membership numbers collapsing! Year - Number 1996 - 1488 2001 - 2032 2002 - 1027 2003 - 741 Scientology's Statistics for "Flag" (Headquarters) Here is a chart of completions of various 'secret' levels offerred at Scientology's Headquarters in Clearwater, data compiled by thomas j. best: 
Year Clear OT5 OT6 OT7 L s Totals 1986 134 142 209 181 446 1112 1987 176 166 308 211 646 1507 1991 276 134 260 125 725 1520 1992 36 71 132 21 480 740 1993 196 79 129 31 603 1038 1994 141 60 101 81 576 959 1995 123 68 112 41 591 935 1996 107 74 81 16 372 650 1997 78 53 39 0 220 390 1998 57 47 86 0 159 349 1999 87 30 99 0 90 306 2000 49 15 43 0 133 240 2001 46 68 39 16 173 342 And this just in from a reliable source who wishes not to be named: "in 1995 the official IAS {International Association of Scientologists } figure was 65,000 worldwide"
On Dec 13, 2002, I sent an email to info@scientology.org asking the following question: "What are current IAS membership stats (in good standing)?" I have not yet received a reply..... |
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