Modern Review November 1931

While the final results of the last census in various countries are not yet known the population in England and Wales increased by 5.52 per cent in the last decade: The slower growth of the population in India in the earlier 'years was due to a higher death-rate rather than to a lower birth-rate. [...] This over-population in India has been brought about by the lack of conscious control of the numbers on the one hand and the inability of production to keep pace with the population growth on the other. [...] India possesses 3.000 million tons of iron-ore and 2; million horse-pi►wer of water resources thus standing fourth in the world in the possession of the former and third in the possession of the latter. [...] But although the' tropics and the sub-tropics do not encourage the growth of physical energy to the same extent as the colder countries the necessaries of life are also fewer in the former as compared with those in the latter. [...] Dissemination of the knowledge and the means of birth control among the people is a comparatively easy Matter but the creation of the desire —Irk the voluntary limitation of the family means the develoment'of a new attitude towards life.