AMERICAN POPULATION
DECLINE OF BIRTHRATE The population of the United States on April 1 was 131,409,881, or 8,634,835 more than in 1930, William Lane Austin, director of the Census Bureau, announced in preliminary figures for the sixteenth census (says the Washington ‘Post’). The rise in population in the decade was only 7 per cent., compared with 16.1 per cent, between 1920 and 1930, and was one-half less than any rate of increase in any 10 years since the first census was taken in 1790. Decline of the national birth rate and virtual stoppage of immigration were ascribed as the reasons for the drop in the rate of increase. “We don’t have enough babies, and we are not building up with immigration from abroad,” Mr. Austin said. He viewed the situation with concern, pointing out that it tended toward a static population. Some writers have placed the static point at about 150,000,000 persons, starting, perhaps, in 1970 or 1980. After that it will steadily decline.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1940, Page 8
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