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Evening Star, Issue 18094, 9 October 1922, Page 8

Before the war the population, of Germany was approximately 68,000,000, and that of Franc© 40,000,000, and th© respective rates of increase in ten years were 15.2 per cent;'-and 1.6 per cen». From figures recently published it would sceir. that there has been no slackening in the rate of increase of the German population. as during last year, while barely 100,000 were added to the French population, an additional 700,000 Germans were enumerated, or seven times the increase claimed by France. These figures are, of course, only estimates based on the births and deaths registered; but as far as France as concerned they are probably fairly correct. The census taken in France last year actually’ showed a decrease of population compared with 1911. In the latter year the population of France was 30,600,000.: In. 1921 it was officially returned as 36,084,000, a. decennial decrease of 8.8 per cent. These figures might well provide food for serious thought on the part of French statesmen.