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constant theme--it only grows by 72,000
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between 1931 and 1936;
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and, as I said before, two-thirds of the
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départements in France had a smaller population in 1939
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than they did in 1851.
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France has relatively few people under the age, under
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twenty years of age; only about thirty-one percent,
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which is an extremely low
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percentage compared to countries that have
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really a high rate of population growth,
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and relatively more people who were elderly.
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And beginning in 1935,