Evening star., 1941-12-01
U. 5. Population
Rises Nearly
1Pct. in Year
Estimated Increase
q Of 1,148,730 Exceeds
Average for Decade
By OLIVER MCKEE.

On April /, continental United
States had q population OF 132,SlS,-
0O5. a gain of 1.148,73o or o.S7 per
cent since the taking OF the census
q year before, the Census Bureau
estimated today.
Reversing the long established
decline in the rate OF population
growth, the estimates revealed .
gain substantially larger than the
average annual increase between
the 1890 and 1910 censuses-approxi-
mately s89, ,0Oo
Two factors are chiefly reSpons-
ible for the increase, the bureau ex-
planned. These are net immigra-
tion, and more births, following q
sharp rise in the marriage rate.
The excess of births over deaths
during the recent period was about
10000 more than in the average
year of the last intercensal period"
the bureau said. Births alone were
about $4,000. or 70 per cent, more
than in the average year Of the
preceding decade. This rise is ex-
planned In part by the fact that the
number OF women 20 to "A, who
have most Of the births, averaged
about per cent more in the recent
than in the earlier period. and in
part by a very large increase-about
one-fifth-in the number Of mar
rAges."
Believed Temporary Increase.
"Sufnciently detailed data are
not yet available to determine
whether there has been a rise in
fertility from any other causes.
1t would be unsafe to say that the
recent acceleration of population
growth in the United States was
more than q temporary reversal in
the long established decline in our
rate Of increase, because two of the
major causes-more net immigra-
ton and a higher marriage rate
are probably not going to continue"
According to the bureaus esti-
mates. approximately per cent Of
the gain during the IL months, or 4
total Of 85.486 persons, was due to
immigration. During the previous
decade, emigration from the United
States exceeded immigration by
10000. 1T would be extremely
hazardous to assume . continuation
Of the recent volume Of immigration
in the future, particularly since
emigration almost balanced immi-
grafton in February, and there was
a net emigration from continental
United States in March" the bureau
cautioned.
Monthly Increases.
Net increases, for individual
months during the year period,
ranged from a high Of l35.505 In
September, 1910. to q low of 1927
in February, 1o41.
During the decade 1880 1910, the
rate Of population growth was less
than half that shown in any
previous 10-year period since the
taking Of the first census in 1890. In
releasing last December the final
population figures for the 1910
census, the Census Bureau warned
that if present trends continue. the
United States will be faced with "a
stationary, or even q declining
population in about 30 or 40 years.
Between 1880 and 1910, the popu-
lation Of the United States increased
1884,, ,229, or ~ per cent. Assuming
a continuation Of the rate of growth
recorded between April l, 1910, and
April l. 1941. the gain for the decade
would thus be nearly 100000.
The estimates released today for
each month have been computed
from the census population. ANAL or
preliminary birth and death Stats
tics, and from data on immigration
and emigration.