As I view the situation we will be hard pressed by 1975 to meet the needs of our booming population. The figures and conditions which I have recited are related to a population of about 227 million in 1975. As we look back on earlier population forecasts we find they have consistently been conservative. The Bureau of the Census forecast in 1946. for example. based on assumptions of medium mortality. medium fertility and no net immigration between 1945 and 2000 indicated the population in 1955 to be just under 150 million. We passed that mark 5 years earlier. That same forecast showed for 1975 a population of 162.3 million.
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