World Breeding

The world's yellow races are breeding five or six times faster than the white races.

Of white peoples the Europeans increase most slowly and the most civilized European countries the slowest of all. Fertility champions of Europe are the Jugoslavs with a 35 net increase per 1,000 population per year. Tail-enders are the Swedes with a net increase of 15 per 1,000.

Of the 195,000,000 souls by which world population will grow in the next ten years, Asia will contribute 140,000,000, the Americas 35,000,000, Europe 20,000,000, others little or nothing.

Such were the figures published last week in Paris by Professor Charles Richet, president of the French Academy of Sciences. Completing his survey of population growth, Professor Richet found Shanghai leading the world's great cities with an annual increase rate of 55 per 1,000. Tokyo and Osaka next with 44 and 33. New York's rate is only 19, but with a long headstart that city remains at the top of Professor Richet's metropolitan picture for 1944:

New York 1944: 8,700,000 1934: 6,930,000

Tokyo 1944: 7,100,000 1934: 4,970,000

Shanghai 1944: 5,700,000 1934: 3,259,000

Berlin 1944: 4,600,000 1934: 4,236,000

Moscow 1944: 4,500,000 1934: 3,368,000

London 1944: 4,400,000 1934: 4,396,000

Chicago 1944: 4,300,000 1934: 3,376,000

Osaka 1944: 3,800,000 1934: 2,450,000

Leningrad 1944: 2,900,000 1934: 2,795,000

Paris 1944: 2,900,000 1934: 2,891,000

Buenos Aires 1944: 2,700,000 1934: 2,195,000

Because revolutions, cataclysms, famines or epidemics may alter present tendencies, Professor Richet refused to look farther than 1944. But if present rates continue, Tokyo with 10,536,000 residents 20 years hence will have nosed past New York.

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