Chinese birth rate thrice death rate
NZPA-Reuter Peking China’s birth rate is three times higher than its death rate; and the average Chinese throws away little more than a handful of rubbish every day, a Chinese newspaper has reported. The “China Daily,” in a breakdown of national statistics, said that on an average day China’s population of about one billion was
increased by 51,000 births and depleted by 17,000 deaths. Each person generated 7r grams of rubbish a day; while 23,000 couples married and 1170 divorced. Each person consumed goods worth US36c a day;, one in 23 people bought a newspaper or magazine; and less than one in 100 posted a letter, it said.
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Press, 12 July 1984, Page 20
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