AUSTRALIA’S POPULATION
BIRTH RATE INCREASES Better economic conditions prevailing with full wartime employment and payment of family endowment have been accompanied/ by an improvement in the Australian birthratewhich reached a record of 153,34 b births in 1944. The Acting Commonwealth Statistician, announcing the latest figures, said evidence suggested there had been some rose in fertility over the past two years. This rise had been particularly evident in marriages contracted from 1934 to 1938. During five war years the number of births totalled 700,220 compared with 589-,-835 in the five pre-war years. The number of marriages in the war years totalled 274,971 compared with 299,823 in the five pre-war years-. The birth rate per thousand of - population had increased from 16.55 in 1935 to 20.99 in 1944.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1945, Page 6
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