OVERCROWDED WORLD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5356, 26 November 1928, Page 2

OVERCROWDED WORLD.

TWO CENTURIES HENCE. SCIENCE TO THE RESCUE. Commenting in the London Daily News on the new book by Sir George Knibbs, formerly Commonwealth Statistician, which, entitled “Tne Shadow of the World’s Future,” predicts tha,t the world will be >vercrowded! two centuries hence. Sir Barnard Mallet, a former RegistrarGenei.al, says he does not think Sir Geoige’s statements are toq sensational, alhough the European birthrate threatens to becopae stationary half a century hence.

Dr. Hugh Daltqn, M.P., the authority on economies, says that ihe is not much, perturbed by the prospect, since scienc.e might enable a huge population to secure a decent living standard.

The main divisions of the human race are estimated to number as folIqws : Mongolian, 680,000,000 ; Caucasian, 725„000,000 ; Negro, 210,000,000 ; Semitic, 100,000,000 ; Malayan, 104,000,000 ; Red Indian, etc., 30 1 ,000,000 ; total, 1,849,500,00 P.

According to statistics gathered by Professor, East, of Harvard University, 150,000 persons are born every day and 1,000,000 die. He says that the population of the United 1 States which now stands at 119,000,000, will become stationary at 200,000,000 befqne 2000 A.D. It has been estimated that the earth can maintain a population of 6,000,000,000, a total which, at .the present rate of increase of births over deaths, will be reached about 2100 A.D.