Hi CC,
The increase is happening because the WTB&TS gave permission for it to happen.
The "anointing" is a purely imaginary process that occurs in the mind of the "anointed one" only, with NO outward manifestations - it is the word of the anointed, "I'm anointed" against anyone else, and the Official position" of the WTB&TS is that these claims are to be accepted at face value.
UNofficially, of course, it is a different story. For decades the number of partakers in Africa has been higher than the WTB&TS felt it should be, so those numbers have been discounted and scaled back to reflect a more appropriate number of partakers.
During the 1950s, 60s and 70s in the USA, the s-l-o-o-o-w decline in the number of anointed (slower than statistically possible) was taken as a "sign" that Armageddon was getting nearer. Now the increase in the number of anointed is taken to mean THE SAME THING.
THIS IS A SIGN OF A MIND CONTOL CULT - that all evidence, pro or con, points to a foregone conclusion.
The WTB&TS (Jehovah's Witnesses) is a MIND-CONTROL CULT.