Birth-rate down
Thailand cut her annual birth-rate from 33 per cent to 3 per cent last year, through successful family planning programmes. Professor Khunying Suparb Visetsurakam, president of the Family Welfare Council, told reporters that if this trend continued, Diailand could reach the target of a 2.5 per cent rate in the next five years.—Bangkok. February 22.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32848, 23 February 1972, Page 17
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