Tokyo, June 19.
Japan's population showed a net {inerease of 99 an hour, last year, the [Bureau of Stalisties revealed to-day.
'The natural rate of increase was 971,523 persons, though the birth rate [Aropped 88,761 as against the previous year. With 2,101,920. births during ihe year, the' average hourly birth rate was 230, The drop in. births Jduring the three last months of lest [year was 78307 compared with the [corresponding period of the previous year.
The total number of births during the "trimester "was 463,945. Deaths. folallea 277,611, a decrease of 2,990 from the figures for 1935—Domel.
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