(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Jewish population in the city of Warsaw, one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe, has diminished during the past four years by 8 percent. If this rate is maintained, infifty years there will be no Jews in Warsaw, according to figures presented by the “Volks Zeitung,” Yiddish labor daily.
According to the newspaper, the general population of the city in 1922 numbered 956,087. In 1927 it rose to 1,018,982, showing an increase of over 60,000. During the saem period the Jewish population diminished not only in relation to the non-Jewish population but in actual count. In 1922 the Jewish population numbered 340,000, in 1924 320,874, in 1925 322,185 and in 1926 313,669, showing a decrease of eight percent.
The cause for this decrease is seen in the decreasing number of births. While in the general population the birth rate is 28 per thousand, the Jewish birth rate is something over 13 per thousand. The economic situation which causes a higher mortality rate and compels many to emigrate is also a factor in the diminishing process.
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