AMERICAN BIRTH RATE
INSURANCE MAN'S ALARM NEW YORK, Nov. 10 The vice-president of the Dublin Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, in an address to women, said that the steady decrease in the fertility of American women was alarming to students of population trends, and unless new forces were brought to bear to increase the birth rate, by 1980 36 per cent of the population of the United States would be over 50 years of age. "Who is going to pay the old-age pensions?" he asked. The present 700,000 annual excess of births over deaths was deceptive, he added. There would be a sharp decrease in the birth rate and an increase in the death rate within a comparatively few years. Birth control was responsible for this state of affairs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22578, 17 November 1936, Page 9
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