Show THE rIlE POPULATION OF FRANCE FRANCEIS IS GRADUALLY Y DECREASING The population of France is decreasing decreasing de- de creasing annually by two hundred thousand This fact is revealed the by-the by the latest vital statistics published by an official official official cial French bureau In the year 1860 there were approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately a million births in France In 1913 there were This year the total will be about From marriages Ju lit 1920 1921 we may expect a minimum of marriages in 1926 says tha 73 n- port Deaths average around and the percentage of births to marriages is only 1 0 per cent compared compared compared com com- pared to per cent In 1654 According to these figures gures tho the I year 2121 may see the population of cf France at zero |