Show hitler inherits low birth rate in czech grab U S figures up minneapolis without bachelor taxes marriage subsidies or baby bonuses the united states birth rate has climbed to and approximate equality with germa nys birth rate which has fallen alien steadily in recent years furthermore r ore germany has now annexed the two lowest birth rates in eu rope in austria and czechoslovakia probably pulling the present average for the whole german empire to a point actually below the current U 5 8 rate according to just completed by northwestern national life insurance company the german birth rat rate e in spite of at that govern governments menti efforts to promote marriage and production of chil dren fell from in 1921 25 io to in 1937 the 1938 figure is is expected coshow a further decline reflecting the he lowered marriage rate arid and the straits of the german pop ebion PP the austrian birth rate rapped from an average of ier thousand of population in the 1921 25 period to tor for the year 1937 the czechoslovakian rate fell in the same time from to the birth rate in the united states de dined from in the 1921 25 period to a low of in 1933 but recovered to in 1937 and then jumped to tor for the year of 1938 the highest figure since 1931 the italian birth rate in spite of many edicts declined from in the 1921 25 period to as of 1937 still considerably above the U S rate however out of every thousand italian babies born in 1937 died in their kheiri first year of life approximately twice the U S infant mortality of per thousand germanys germanas Germ anys infant mortality figured figure is almost as favorable its as that j of the united states 64 per thousand live births but the czecho aze cho slovakian akian tate is the highest in eu rope and the austrian figu reis 93 deaths per thousand also aia without legislative promotion the U S marriage aate esthe highest hig hestAn in the world averaging avera gini in excess of 10 per thousand of la jaqw tion per year for the past several years meanwhile germany s marriage rate had shrunk fro from M in 1934 to 91 in 1937 the Au austrian rate is 65 per thousand the czechoslovakian 83 the italian rate is 86 having climbed from 67 in 1935 of the two major european de moc the united kingdom shows a i drop in birth rate from fo for r the 1921 to i 3 in 1937 which represents a halt in the decline as the rate tor for 1936 was also frances birth rate declined from in the 1921 25 period to 15 in 1936 and to in 1937 U S AND FOREIGN BIRTH RATES birth rate infant mortality per 1000 population per 1000 live births 25 1936 1937 1938 1921 25 1936 1937 united states 74 57 germany 66 64 J austria 93 czechoslovakia taly united kingdom 78 62 61 france 95 67 65 japan |