GERMANY'S TREMENDOUS GROWTH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 857, 1 July 1910, Page 7

GERMANY'S TREMENDOUS GROWTH.

It is curious lo find n demand for larger families even in Berlin, which has a greater density of population to the square mile than any other of the ..great cities, with the exception of Paris. A recent writer in the " World's Work" gave some striking statistics of the increase in population in the various European countries during the nineteenth century. When France'and Germany faced each other in tho Napoleonic wars this population of France exceeded that of Germany by more tluui 10 per cent., the territory of both nations being about equal in area. By 190S the population of Germany had almost tripled, while that of France had increased by less than half, so that the excess of four million inhabitants in favour of Franco in li-00 had given place to an excess in favour of Germany of twenty-four millions. It is significant that the increase in the population of the German Empire has not been duo to accessions of territory carrying with them large numbers of inhabitants, but has, in fact, gone in the face of an extraordinary and continuous loss through emigration to all parts of the world, especially to tho United States. France, on the other hand, has lost but few of her citizens by departure. There has latterly, however, been some evidence that the rate of increase in the population of Germany is beginning to experience the same decline which has been noticed in most European countries during recent years.