Why the numbers of naturists is low. and what should be done to help naturism grow.

The number of "declared" naturists and "declared" nudists absolutely is a minority globally. As far as the numbers go, my best estimates is that there are millions upon millions of "Partial or situational nudists" in countries all over the world, especially among some cultures in a minority of many certain possible situations. For reference, there are 8 and two-tenths Billion People, (8,230,000,000) who are alive in the world right now. The total global live population at any time might have reached its all-time high in 2024 and will go down from this time onward, due to birthrate declines in the Pacific, Latin America, Africa, and across Asia. There are 1 Billion and 420 Million people living inside the Federal Republic of India right now. India is therefore the most populated nation on the planet since China only has 1 Billion and 230 Million people living in Mainland China plus Macau and Hong Kong. I'll just say this, there are millions of many people who are nudists situationally in the range of half a billion to about 300 million in "rare" situations. Depending on if people bathe nude or not, millions more people additionally accept either limited public bathing, or "private" "non-sexual nudity" in private or otherwise public in bathing situations. This varies when people do not have "access at their home" to "running water" so some people usually can go to a sub-standard bathing situation or otherwise to a public bath or an outdoor bath or a "bathhouse" dependent on their neighborhood. For some people, that really is the limit of their experience in nudity from a "nudist" perspective in many many nations, if they even have some. Islam often limits people to their homes or away from anyone else's prying eyes. Same for many many people inside Chalcedonian Trinitarian Eastern Orthodox Christianity (The Eastern Orthodox Churches), and the situation is the same for many people inside many branches of the Catholic churches, Same for people inside the right-wing protestant churches, especially among conservative right-wing Baptists inside The Middle East and Baptists inside the United States and Baptists inside nations inside the Continental Area of Africa (including Madagascar). Orthodox Jews often limit nudity as well. The Buddhist religion also has a few major branches that usually promote some level of "Buddhist Modesty" as a virtue and promote the values of Buddhism through both virtues of "Modesty" and "dress codes" along side virtue among commoners and "Monasticism" among the buddhist monks. Sometimes people miss the big picture of life and instead look for smaller narratives. Many of these narratives alienate some of us from several religions. I cannot find anywhere in the Bible among Jesus' words about dress-codes. What I have found is the Sermon on the mount, but often people inside the "readers of Bibles" inside the Christian communities, and usually certain branches of Protestantism, look to the advice of Paul the apostle. People need to know the "historic" and "in its own past era" contexts of the Bible before criticizing it or taking it as truth blindly. Anyway. So, right off the bat, there are few people among Humans in general that are more than "Basic home only private nudists." So if the more than home nudists goes up when including people in African Asian and Latin American and Pacific Countries that are able to bathe outdoors, the basic number is about between 500 Million to about 1 Billion at most. So 1/7 to 1/8 of earth really could be for just bathing or just for outdoor showers or swimming, but not the majority of the world is in that group because of laws and standards mean people could be marginalized for it and minimize even swimming outdoors, like it is in Asian and African Officially Islamic Law countries. One should check out the map of the legal systems of the world on Wikipedia. Here is the link here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system) Customary law based in Islam or extreme moral standards of Judaism, Eastern Christianity, Protestantism, or Buddhism, or some of the other morality religions can also hinder the spread of nudism and marginalize nudists by oppression. One should research religion by countries' distribution of population. Some of the more accurate statistics of religion globally as of 2020 in English can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religions_by_country Generally speaking, unless a culture was respected by being never ever colonized by Europe, or some other religious culture, or the Europeans left them alone by only partially colonizing their culture and later leaving them less influenced by Europe after De-Colonization happened, only culture that were less well-contacted-by-Europeans-or-Islam included full-time nudists after British, Kingdom of Netherlands, French, Belgian, Russian, Spanish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Islamic, or Chinese Conquest had finally been expelled in much of the nations of the world. Many nations are still reeling with the consequences of Islamic, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, Belgian, and Spanish Conquest. For example, domestic violence has never decreased since the second Congo war in DR Congo, formerly Zaire, formerly Belgian Congo. Much of the violence has origins in the subdivision of the Belgian Overseas Empire in that part of Africa by the Belgian Kings. Former Ottoman places in much of Europe still have a violence culture and a Modesty culture leftover from the Ottoman Empire. Take for example Bosnians in the Republika Serpska region of the Bosnia U.N. Member Nation. Extreme violence among Bosnians is still left over from centuries of division and later the Ethnic conflict which lasted from 1991 to 2008. Much of "Modern Nudism" and the term "Naturism" is generally confined to Australians and New Zealand people, and among Canadians and United States People and among a certain population of people in much of central and Western Europe among many Secular people and among some "Alternative Religions" practitioners, among mystic or spiritual people, among some Catholics and Protestants and among some of the other Christians and among smaller groups among European Muslims, and among people who are interested in some of the other cultures that do not belong to the major cultures of Europe or the major cultures of Asia. Much of the movement comes from several "lebensreform" people in Nineteenth Century Germany and Western Europe, and much of the movement comes from people in Anarchist circles among historically among Canadians and Americans and Europeans. Much of it also comes from Reformers to Catholic and Protestant Christianity and some other Christians who attempted to make successful reform movements in the 19th century, as well as reformers from the 19th and 20th century in Hinduism and Buddhism, and reformers inside Spirituality, Minority religions, and paganism and mysticism, inside the 19th and 20th centuries. As well as among the original religions outside Europe being re-evaluated and respected, as well as survival of indigenous religions in Africa, Asia, Americas, and the Pacific and Australia and New Zealand, we have much to credit for the western re-discovery of "Spirituality" or otherwise "reform" in the 19th century and earlier to help "Western" people become more adept to nudism among some of the people inside "the Collective West." We really have to thank the spread of ideas, and sometimes literacy, for the spread of these ideas inside Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and in the USA, for transforming some of the culture into nudism. And some of that did translate in the 19th and 20th century with the idea of Public Bath-Houses, and, to an extent, the then-segregated-by-gender public pools in the USA and several countries in what now are called "Western Countries." Naturism largely is reliant on past movements rather than the survival of new ideas from different cultures, or bringing new ideas into effect.…