James 🇦🇺

My new Queensland TFR by LGA map. Please note, this is based on 2024 data, the 2025 data actually comes out tomorrow (November 4th 2026), so I’ll begin to post more up to data fertility data, as well as comparisons between the 2024 and 2025 maps, noting which LGAs are most or least resilient. These maps take me an hour or more to make and present, so if you’re interested in more, please repost and maybe follow, i’ll keep doing it for as long as people are actually keen on seeing this information. 👍🏻 I’ll be covering some individual LGAs in QLD that I think are interesting next, before moving to Victoria, the plan is to do all the states, then deep dives into LGAs and I’ll also make a map for the entire country broken down by LGA (those that are incorporated and have data). #Demographics #Auspol

It is, Australians and Brits are the same people, Australian, in the most true and original form of the word just means ‘to be a Brit in the southern continent’. It was only later when other people co-opted this identity that it lost its meaning and became a universal identity that anyone can attain with the right documents.

🇻🇦 The Neocatechumenal Way: (TFR approx 3.5) I decided to see what demographic material is available for the Neocatechumenal Way. - Many have heard of Traditional Latin Mass Catholics and their fertility. Fewer have heard of the Neocatechumenal Way, a Catholic formation movement that operates within ordinary Novus Ordo parishes. It was founded in Spain in the 60s. The general premise is to form people into small communities focused on various aspects of Catholic life like Scripture and liturgy. - The movement places a strong emphasis on welcoming children and large families are a documented trend within the movement, although specific numbers and data are hard to parse. - The Way is currently present in 139 countries, with more than 20k communities worldwide. The vast majority approx 16-17k are in Italy and Spain. In those countries it maintains its largest network of parishes and communities. • Family size: What we can decipher.... • 📊 Barcelona, Spain: A 2012 parish report from Santa Joaquina de Vedruna recorded an average of 4.2 children per married couple across its Neocatechumenal communities. It reported over 700 adults and 400 children under 14. - Approx 70% of the children had been born after their parents joined the Way, - Additionally and quite interestingly the report also stated that almost 80% of children over 14 continued in the movement. • 📊 1986: At an audience with Pope John Paul II, the Way reported 48 families with 203 children an average of over 4.2 children per family. • 📊 1994: Another papal audience this time involved 120 missionary families with 441 children. So an average of about 3.7 children per family. • 📊 2018: The movement reported 1,668 families serving in missions worldwide, with approximately 6k children. • 📊 2022: The Ways own figures reported more than 2k missionary families with around 6,5k children and thus approximately 3.25 children per family. - Additionally there is a large body of stories of individual families, some with enormous families that has been reported in local news in various countries. Particularly again in Italy and Spain - Taken together, the reported missionary family figures suggest an average in the region of 3.5 children per family, although as a caveat this is a very rough estimate from the information available. This also does not allow for completed family size which may push the average slightly higher. (Sources Below)