Frank W. Notestein

The alarming rates at which the populations in the underdeveloped countries have been increasing in the past decade have caused worldwide concern. For an appraisal of the situation we turn to FRANK W. NOTESTEIN, who for many years was director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Mr. Notestein is now President of the Population Council, an organization seeking to foster understanding of the problems of population by supporting research and training in the medical and demographic fields.

The acceleration of our birth rate has had the experts guessing since the end of the Second World War. FRANK NOTESTEIN, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, reports on this phenomenon and discusses what it will mean to oar country in terms of jobs, opportunities, and standards of living.

» The birth rate has been steadily falling in the Western world. It reached a low point in the U. S. in 1933 and will in all probability decline again in the coming decades. What do these changes portend at home and in world affairs?