Show NATIONS population RISES BISES TO I 1 tl pit of the united stated Is ig estimated to have beela pil oil july 1 or an increase of over the preceding year period that 1 Is 19 9 tho the estimate of tile the census bureau last week rt it gives this population picture all trtat showing gains in littion exe except apt rhode island wisconsin south dakota nebraska mississippi montana new mexico exico Nl and arizona for which no change was vlas listed A net immigration into athla 3 country luring during the alie year of only persons an animal ute kit population increase Inci oase about tho the same as tor for the hie 1934 35 census year just what do these figures on population growth acan what is the prospect of df future increases increase lit in i tile the population the answer as aa given div e n I 1 ly y dr 0 E baker ot of the department of agriculture la is as follows causes of increase Io pula loii increases now are iby by the large part of the population in ill the e you younger ilger age groups this Is a the large in rge immigration ot of the past and the higher birth rates of the last few decades i it ifft it were not for these factors ithe copt population might be declining I 1 instead of increasing under present population 1 trends rends it Is possible that the united instates may have a declining population as early as 1950 peak to come in 1905 1965 another population expert prof E F Pen roise of the university of california estimates esElin ates that a maximum population of will la be reached lit in 1965 after there will be a decline of nf atly in the yub subsequent sequent 15 years lie ile attributes fit tri autes tile the sharp decline in the rate which chats beell most marked since 1921 to the increased practice tace of birth con coil arol kule mar marringer and econ economic omle insecurity which tends to restrict large families i dr baker points out that boat at present birth rates 10 adults lit in the large cities of the country are averaging ang only about seven children under such euch conditions new york city in a century or three gw generations would have only about one third the people it haa today on oil the other hand farming fanning are showing a surplus birth rate which during the period of a century would result in ili ft a population double their pres prea 1 ent numbers lincolbn Lincol nn ns forecast the decline in ill the birth rate li has m been lit in evidence for more than ahall it i century until the ithe civil war population in the united states doubled every quarter cau tury if till tilla a rate of increase had bad continued population today would total more than tile the number which president lincoln forecast the number of births in this country reached a peak in 1921 when about bable babies were born and was maintained at nearly this level until 1924 at present only billy about bv ba lb ibler les are being born a year wd ana the trend up until the INA few years when economic recovery began to appear was sharply downward how flow this decline in the high rate has affected population increase la Is shown by the population figures for this decade and fo tor T the decapp of 0 the twenties during burins the decade tram from aw 1920 to 1930 there was a population oi of at the annual rate of increase sawo for lia ila first six I 1 years yeara of this decade the total population tor for tho the period will bp be under nine million ot ap only ah out half that of the pr preceding eMlIng 10 years |