Guyana’s population increase is now estimated at 2.9 per cent per annum and the life expectancy for males is 59 and for females 63 years.
A progressive increase in the birth rate ( estimated to be 37.9 per 1000) as of July 1968 has been noted the Ministry of Health reported Thursday.
As a result of this there has been a marked rise in the natural increase in the population .
The marked rise in the population was occasioned by the progressive rise in the birth rate and paralleled by a decline in the crude death rate (7.7 as of July 1968) as well as the infant mortality rate the figures for which `stood at 41.3 per 1000 in 1968.
(Guyana Graphic November 9, 1968)
