-Meaning. As crises compound and the world gets more confusing people turn to a place that offers them stability, identity and meaning. “Religion is the opium of the people” and all that.
-Political shift. Back in the day the cool edgy conservatism was libertarianism. This was pretty closely linked to the new atheism, and the religious right was considered pretty uncool by most. Now it seems the religious right has become the cool edgy conservatism, so this might explain some of the rise of young people.
-As people are saying, the chart is regular churchgoing by people who consider themselves Christian. Sort of unknown if churchgoing is the increasing across the population. I’d guess that it is, but we can’t be sure.
-Meaning. As crises compound and the world gets more confusing people turn to a place that offers them stability, identity and meaning. “Religion is the opium of the people” and all that.
-Political shift. Back in the day the cool edgy conservatism was libertarianism. This was pretty closely linked to the new atheism, and the religious right was considered pretty uncool by most. Now it seems the religious right has become the cool edgy conservatism, so this might explain some of the rise of young people.
-As people are saying, the chart is regular churchgoing by people who consider themselves Christian. Sort of unknown if churchgoing is the increasing across the population. I’d guess that it is, but we can’t be sure.
It is going down
Second table in that link specifically addresses that question.
This makes me pretty skeptical of the graph OP shared.
That is US polling; the OP is based on UK polling.
the chart is percentage ov total population, so I think it practically indicates increase in churchgoing of the general population.