The problem of population growth in Germany

The decrease in the birth rate, which was noted in almost all cultural countries in the pre-war years, found its expression in Germany. The decade preceding the Franco-German War (1861-70) showed 37.2 births per 1000 population in the afternoon (see tab. № 1). The post-war years (1872-1876) gave an increase in births to 40.9%. In the future, a systematic decline begins, which reached 27.5 per 1000 population in the last year, before the Second World War (1913). In total, from the 60s to 1913, for about half a century, the birth rate fell by 13.4%. The years of the World War gave a catastrophic drop in the birth rate (minimum 13.9% in 1917); the first post-war ones gave a slight increase (maximum 25.9% in 1920), then a strong decline begins again -reaching 17.9% in 1929. We see that the rate of decline in the birth rate in the post-war years is extremely significant. During the period from 1913 to 1929, i.e. for 16 years, the birth rate decreased by 9.4% (more than one third), while for half a century preceding the World War, the decrease was 13.4% (also one third of the initial value-37.2).