THE UNION'S BIRTH-RATE
HIGHEST IN THE EMPIRE 8 PER CENT LOWER THAN IN 1910 [from our own correspondent] DURBAN, Sept. 12 The annual report on the vital statis* tics of the Union of South Africa for 1936 records that European births registered during that year numbered 48,630, corresponding to a birth-rate of 24.21 per thousand of the estimated population. This represents an increase of 2913 births over 1935. The rate for 1936 is 8.31 per thousand lower than in 1910. Practically without: exception all the rural areas show appreciable increases in the final figures, the number of births to be credited to the rural areas increasing from 13,912 in 1925 to 18,999 in 1936, a difference of 5057, which raised the rural birth-rate from 19.98 to 27.29. Tho Union, with an average rate of 23.9 for the period 1934-36, stands higher in this respect than any osier British Dominion. Tho total excess' of births over deaths of Europeans from 1910-1936 was approximately 726,645. The 1936 census discloses that tho male population exceeds tho female in the ratio of 103.2 to 100.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23155, 29 September 1938, Page 10
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