Excerpt from The Future Need for Farm Land

The Population Prospect. However, the population of the United States will continue to increase for at least 10 years, probably 20 years, possibly 30 years, principally because the large number of middle - aged people must first grow old and die. By 1940 there will be almost certainly 7, 000, 000, possibly 9, 000, 000, more people in the United S ates than there were in 1930, and between l9u0 and 1950 there may be a further gain of to Soon after 1950, possibly before, the prospect is that population will become stationary, and by 1960 it will have started to decline. (figure We must look forward to an increase of population between now and the peak year considerably less than that which'has occurred since the world war, and'then a decrease which will accelerate at about the same rate as the present increase, reversed as to time, unless the birthrate rises, or immigration increases greatly. By 1975, or, perhaps, a decade earlier, the population of tile nation may have fallen to or below the present level. For a third to a half century to come, therefore, the population of the nation seems likely to remain within 10 or 12 percent of wnat it is at present. This may be compared with an increase of 16 percent between 1920 and 1930.

But although the total population of the nation may not change greatly for a third to half a century, there will be great changes in the number of children and of old people, and there may be great Changes in tne number of people living in rural and in urban territory.

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