Well that Kiko himself said it, my dear jdegi, is not a proof of anything.
He has been caught several times redhanded "sexing up" his figures.
We had already this discussion about Loreto meeting
I showed you a report from a reliable source  korazym  http://www.korazym.org/news1.asp?Id=25057 
that quite shows this.
In his/her report, a correspondent who attended the event, after praising the Neocatechumenal way (meaning the source was not biased at all)couldn't help but notice
that the actual number of youth who responded to Kiko's call
was much less than the one given by Kiko himself (one third o the original figures).

About a group-movement you cannot report only the figures given by the group itself which are prone to propaganda, you have to try to
crosscheck them when you do that with the Neocatechumenal way you sometimes get nice surprises.