SLIGHT INCREASE
ENGLAND'S POPULATION
BIRTH-RATE STILL LOW
(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, March 5.
Figures for 1936, just issued by the Registrar-General, show that in the middle of that year the population of England and Wales was approximately 40,839,000. This is an increase of 194,000 compared with the estimated population in the middle of the preceding yearj The population at the 1931 Census was 39,952,377.
Births registered during the year numbered 605,292, an increase of 24,879 as compared with 1933. The total in that year was the lowest recorded since 1850, when the population was less than half the present number. The birth-rate in 1936 was 14.8 per^tOOO of population, or .1 more than in. 1935.
The review states that of the countries for. which data are available the only ones showing a lower rate in 1936 were Austria (13.1) and Sweden (14,2).
During 1936 there.were 32 boys and 1179 girls married at 16, the lowest legal age at which marriage can take place. The-boys married females up to 22 years old, but the girls married males of varying tages between 16 and 55. In only 11 cases were the bride and "bridegroom both 16.
The French commission on industrial, production recommended to M.' Chautemps, the French Premier, that the 40-hour week .should be made more flexible, .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1938, Page 17
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217SLIGHT INCREASE Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1938, Page 17
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