DECLINING POPULATION
FUTURE OF BRITISH RACE INVESTIGATION COM- . MITTEE LONDON, June 29. Children or grandchildren of people alive to-day may live to see Britain's population decline by nine-tenths, arid may exist in a country of dying towns, empty buildings, and almost silent industry. This is one of the startling conclusions emerging from a preliminary survey of the falling birth-rate by-the Population Investigation Committee, in its first report, published by Reynolds' News.
The committee, on the assumption that recent trends in birth and death rates will continue, gives these estimates of the futre population of England and Wales:—l94o, 40,655,000; 1960, 37,441,000; 1980, 28,857,000; 2000, 17,685,00; 2020, 8,563,000; 2035, 4,426,000. The committee hopes to answer the question how far the motives leading to restriction of families are selfish and how far unselfish. * Dr. C. P. Blacker, secretary of the committee, believes that parents who decline to have children because of the possibility of war, slumps, and social upheavalare still rare.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19372, 9 July 1937, Page 5
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