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Show VS. BABY BOOM Population Increases 2.5 Millions Yearly According to a statistical bulletin bulle-tin issued by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the United States may soon break all world's records in population growth. Americans Amer-icans are being born at the rate of 26,000,000 and more each 10 years. It is estimated that by 1962 there will be 181,500,000 o us. Births in the United States set an all-time record of more than 3,900,- 000 last year. After subtracting the deaths, the gain amounts to 2,650,000. This reflects, the report said, the increase in marriages after the start of the Korean War. There is a general trend to break away from the one-or-two-child family fam-ily that prevailed before World War II, the report adds. Also, there is a general trend in the United States toward earlier marriages. |