It's easy to ridicule the success of Elan Vital propagation through the use of geometrical progressions though they were certainly being bandied about in satsang back in the 70's to describe just how Guru Maharaj Ji was going to bring peace to the world.But even if we use just a simple arithmetical progression and imagine that propagation had been successful enough to attract in, for example, Australia, an extra 1,000 premies into the fold every year since 1980 when there really were 1,000 premies (about double the current number).
2005 - 1980 = 25 years
So 25 years x 1,000 new premies per year = 25,000
Plus the oringinal 1,000 who would be very happy little campers these days surrounded by 26,000 brethren many of whom wouldn't in their 50's.
IRCC packed to the gills with 26,000 Australian premies. No doubt that's somebody's idea of heaven and strangely enough it's also the number of Australian casualties at Gallipolli.