FRENCH POPULATION.
DECLINE IN BIRTH-RATE.
SERIOUS POSITION • CREATED. PARIS. April 9. Statistics issued by (he French Government show that last year, for the first time in the history of the country, the deaths heavily outnumbered the births, whereas 70,(X)0 more births than deaths were registered in 1928.
Tho population deficit is 12,564. This decline threatens (ho military and industrial power of France, especially in view of the foreign population of (he conn-
try. One child per marriage is almost (lie standardised rale.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20537, 11 April 1930, Page 11
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