Crunching the numbers

Australian Population
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as of 5.27pm, December 12, 2006 there were 20,713,873 Australians.

Every two minutes the number goes up with a new baby born. Every four minutes it goes down with a death. With migration factored in, that’s a net gain of one person every two minutes.

Despite the steady increase in the number of Aussies, church attendance continues to decline and so does the number of churches.

No surprises that declining weekly attendance and numbers of congregations are related. No surprises that the denominations that are planting churches are growing and the denominations in decline are shutting them down.

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3 Comments

  1. Keith
    Posted 13 December, 2006 at 8:48 PM | Permalink

    Cool visual demonstrating the need for new churches.

    How about making a counter for number of churches. Which direction would it be counting?

  2. Posted 13 December, 2006 at 10:52 PM | Permalink

    Let’s get to work seeing these “1 new Baby every 2 minutes” reached with the gospel (Though I guess we ought to wait until they’re old enough to comprehend it at least!!)

  3. Posted 14 December, 2006 at 8:21 AM | Permalink

    Keith. Like your idea of a counter.

    I’ll respond to your question re numbers of churches in a post next week.

    steve

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