What you're looking for is martial arts demographics. And you want world-wide demographics. Both of which seem kind of hard to come by.

The demographics you're looking for might be along the lines of: how many people are there doing martial arts, what percentage of the population is currently practising one or has ever practices one, average time spent per week, average time spent before quitting, which martial arts are most popular, average age of participants, average income of participants, etc.

Most demographic polls are conducted by polling organizations that need to be paid for their work. Individual martial arts schools don't make enough money to do this. And they generally aren't going to be interested in martial arts in the broader sense, either.

Some sports and martial arts related magazines and journals have been known to do polling from time to time. For example, here's one on the subject of MMA viewership.

So you might gather a list of magazines and journals and ask them if they have anything that might interest you.

I also found these articles discussing a Simmons Market Research poll here and here. And I found this…

If you search, you might find more. Those just came up in a quick Google search.

Keep in mind there's a difference between an online poll and a professional poll. Professional polls are done by organizations that only poll for a living. They understand how to ask the questions in such a way as to not bias the results. They know how to sample the population so that it takes all ages, all professions, all economic and ethnic backgrounds into consideration.

Whereas, online polling and surveys are automatically biased towards people who are spending time on their computers. It's a certain type of person, perhaps not representative of martial arts practitioners as a whole.

Online polling and surveys often don't ask the right questions or in the right way. And they may not be able to prevent multiple poll results from the same person for the same poll. And their sample size itself may be too small.

I mention that, because there are many online polls and surveys about martial arts. And they're generally pretty low quality.

None of these so far offer the kind of broad, world-wide data you're looking for. I think that kind of thing would be one or two orders of magnitude more rare. Nothing comes to mind.

Hope that helps.

What you're looking for is martial arts demographics. And you want world-wide demographics. Both of which seem kind of hard to come by.

The demographics you're looking for might be along the lines of: how many people are there doing martial arts, what percentage of the population is currently practicing one or has ever practiced one, average time spent per week, average time spent before quitting, which martial arts are most popular, average age of participants, average income of participants, etc.

Most demographic polls are conducted by polling organizations that need to be paid for their work. Individual martial arts schools don't make enough money to do this. And they generally aren't going to be interested in martial arts in the broader sense, either.

Some sports and martial arts related magazines and journals have been known to do polling from time to time. For example, here's one on the subject of MMA viewership.

So you might gather a list of magazines and journals and ask them if they have anything that might interest you.

I also found these articles discussing a Simmons Market Research poll here and here. And I found this.

If you search, you might find more. Those just came up in a quick Google search.

Keep in mind there's a difference between an online poll and a professional poll. Professional polls are done by organizations that only poll for a living. They understand how to ask the questions in such a way as to not bias the results. They know how to sample the population so that it takes all ages, all professions, all economic and ethnic backgrounds into consideration.

Whereas, online polling and surveys are automatically biased towards people who are spending time on their computers. It's a certain type of person, perhaps not representative of martial arts practitioners as a whole.

Online polling and surveys often don't ask the right questions or in the right way. And they may not be able to prevent multiple poll results from the same person for the same poll. And their sample size itself may be too small.

I mention that, because there are many online polls and surveys about martial arts. And they're generally pretty low quality.

None of these so far offer the kind of broad, world-wide data you're looking for. I think that kind of thing would be one or two orders of magnitude more rare. Nothing comes to mind.

Hope that helps.

What you're looking for is martial arts demographics. And you want world-wide demographics. Both of which seem kind of hard to come by.

The demographics you're looking for might be along the lines of: how many people are there doing martial arts, what percentage of the population is currently practicing one or has ever practiced one, average time spent per week, average time spent before quitting, which martial arts are most popular, average age of participants, average income of participants, etc.

Most demographic polls are conducted by polling organizations that need to be paid for their work. Individual martial arts schools don't make enough money to do this. And they generally aren't going to be interested in martial arts in the broader sense, either.

Some sports and martial arts related magazines and journals have been known to do polling from time to time. For example, here's one on the subject of MMA viewership:

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2013/04/22/In-Depth/Fight-fan-avidity.aspx

So you might gather a list of magazines and journals and ask them if they have anything that might interest you.

I also found these articles discussing a particular poll:

http://adage.com/article/american-demographics/questions-answered/44147/

 http://mainemartialarts.com/martial-arts/martial-arts-statistics-demographics-people-practice/

  And I found this...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191917/participants-in-martial-arts-in-the-us-since-2006/

If you search, you might find more. Those just came up in a quick Google search.

Keep in mind there's a difference between an online poll and a professional poll. Professional polls are done by organizations that only poll for a living. They understand how to ask the questions in such a way as to not bias the results. They know how to sample the population so that it takes all ages, all professions, all economic and ethnic backgrounds into consideration.

Whereas, online polling and surveys are automatically biased towards people who are spending time on their computers. It's a certain type of person, perhaps not representative of martial arts practitioners as a whole.

Online polling and surveys often don't ask the right questions or in the right way. And they may not be able to prevent multiple poll results from the same person for the same poll. And their sample size itself may be too small.

I mention that, because there are many online polls and surveys about martial arts. And they're generally pretty low quality.

None of these so far offer the kind of broad, world-wide data you're looking for. I think that kind of thing would be one or two orders of magnitude more rare. Nothing comes to mind.

Hope that helps.

What you're looking for is martial arts demographics. And you want world-wide demographics. Both of which seem kind of hard to come by.

The demographics you're looking for might be along the lines of: how many people are there doing martial arts, what percentage of the population is currently practising one or has ever practices one, average time spent per week, average time spent before quitting, which martial arts are most popular, average age of participants, average income of participants, etc.

Most demographic polls are conducted by polling organizations that need to be paid for their work. Individual martial arts schools don't make enough money to do this. And they generally aren't going to be interested in martial arts in the broader sense, either.

Some sports and martial arts related magazines and journals have been known to do polling from time to time. For example, here's one on the subject of MMA viewership.

So you might gather a list of magazines and journals and ask them if they have anything that might interest you.

I also found these articles discussing a Simmons Market Research poll  here and here. And I found this…

If you search, you might find more. Those just came up in a quick Google search.

Keep in mind there's a difference between an online poll and a professional poll. Professional polls are done by organizations that only poll for a living. They understand how to ask the questions in such a way as to not bias the results. They know how to sample the population so that it takes all ages, all professions, all economic and ethnic backgrounds into consideration.

Whereas, online polling and surveys are automatically biased towards people who are spending time on their computers. It's a certain type of person, perhaps not representative of martial arts practitioners as a whole.

Online polling and surveys often don't ask the right questions or in the right way. And they may not be able to prevent multiple poll results from the same person for the same poll. And their sample size itself may be too small.

I mention that, because there are many online polls and surveys about martial arts. And they're generally pretty low quality.

None of these so far offer the kind of broad, world-wide data you're looking for. I think that kind of thing would be one or two orders of magnitude more rare. Nothing comes to mind.

Hope that helps.