Roman Catholic Countries. (Note that the fall of the birth rate has taken place almost equally with that in the Protestant Countries, and with the same result.)
The only four countries in which the birth rate is approximately stationary. (Notice that the death rate has not fallen—except, perhaps in Russia—and that the infantile mortality has not fallen. Also that the highest birth rate produces the highest death rate and infantile mortality, and the lowest birth rate the lowest mortality.)
The only four countries with rising birth rates. The death rate and the infantile mortality have increased in every one.
Australia. The death rate has fallen with the birth rate, and is now only about 10 per 1,000.
New Zealand. The only country in which the fall in the birth rate has not produced a fall in the death rate, and which is not therefore over-populated. The infantile mortality is the lowest in the world, and the death rate less than 10 per 1,000, which gives us an ideal which we can reach in all countries by lowering the birth rate sufficiently.