FRENCH POPULATION
MARRIAGES & BIRTHS DECLINE.
(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)
LONDON, May 28
“The Times’s” Paris correspondent states: France had a lower death rate, which has compensated for her lower birth rate in the year 1927, as compared with the birth rate of 1926. The population of France is now 40,960,000, which is the highest total since the year 1913. The births last, year numbered 741,718. This is the lowest total since the year 1913. Tho deaths totalled 676,666 last year a& compared with 713,456 in 1926. The marriages last year were 337,864, and are thus progressively declining, this total being the lowest since the war.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 May 1928, Page 5
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