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[Facts] Re: Why no Australian or South African/ Other African Countries
Well, Australia doesn't have provinces, for a start ;) We have states.Australia is a federation of states, and births, deaths and marriages are all controlled by the individual states not by the federal government, so data on popular names is collected and presented by individual states. There's no central body responsible for collecting that data and processing it for the whole country, so it doesn't happen unless someone pays for a report or something. It's also complicated by the fact that different states publish different types of data sets for different numbers of names, so it'd be a bit of a hodge-podge of statistics.

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