FRANCE’S POPULATION
LOW BIRTH RATE. (Rec. 7.4 p.m.) London, May 28. The Times’ Paris correspondent states that a lower death-rate is compensated for by a lower uirth-rate in 1927. compared with 1926. The population is now 40,960,000 which is the highest since the war. Births totalled 741,718, the lowest since 1913, deaths 676,66£. compared with 713,456 in 1926, and marriages 337,864. Marriages are progressively declining, and the total is the lowest since the war.—Times Cables.
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Southland Times, Issue 20499, 30 May 1928, Page 7
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75FRANCE’S POPULATION Southland Times, Issue 20499, 30 May 1928, Page 7
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