DEATH RATE

1871-1890 1893-1902 1904

England ................... 20.3 17.6 16.2
Germany ................... 26.0 21.5 19.6
France .................... 22.8 20.8 19.4



BIRTH RATE

1871-1890 1893-1902 1904

England ................... 34.0 29.3 28.0
Germany ................... 38.1 35.9 35.2
France .................... 24.6 22.8 20.9


From the above table it is evident that while birth rates and death
rates have been declining in all civilized peoples, the decline has been
unequal in different peoples. Both England and Germany in the above
table show still a good surplus of births over deaths; in the case of
England in 1904 this surplus being 11.8 per thousand of the population
annually, while in the case of Germany it was 15.6. In the case of
France, however, the surplus of births over deaths for a number of years
has been very insignificant, and in the year 1907 there were actually
about 20,000 more deaths than births in all France (773,969 births
against 793,889 deaths). France's population has, therefore, been