INCREASED BIRTH-RATE
SOUTH AFRICA’S HIGHEST IN EMPIRE.
The annual report on the vital statistics of the Union of South Africa for 1936 records that European births registered during that year numbered 48,630, corresponding to a birth-rate of 24.21 per thousand of the estimated population. This represents an increase of 2913 births over 1935. The rate for 1936 is 8.31 per thousand lower than in 1910.
Practically without exception all the rural areas show appreciable increases in the final figures, the number of births'to be credited to the rural areas increasing from 13,912 in 1925 to 18,999 in 1936, a difference of 5087, which raised the rural birth-rate from 19.98 to 27.29.
The Union, with an average rate of 23.9 for the period 1934-36, stands higher in this respect than any other British Dominion. The total excess of births over deaths of Europeans from 1910-1936 was approximately 726,645. The 1936 census discloses that the male population exceeds the female in the ration of 103.2 to 100.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1938, Page 5
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