THE POPULATION OF GERMANY.
SHOWS A DECLINE. DECREASING BIRTH RATE. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.45 a.m.) London, 'December 14. The Daily Mail’s Berlin correspondent says tlie German race is dwindling. His deduction has been made from the school returns of the city, which show 353,000 pupils, compared with. 700,000 before the war. The newspaper Oberburgmaster estimates that the birth rate has been reduced, principally due to the housing shortage. Di\ Alfred Grotialm contends that there must be 20 births per thousand to maintain the population prior to 1885, when there were 37 to 46 _ to the thousand in the chief . cities. There are now only 14.2, and in Berlin there are now only ten births annually per thousand.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2514, 15 December 1927, Page 5
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