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By any index, Puerto Rico has an exceptionally high ratio of people to resources. The rate of natural increase, due to a decrease in the death rate and a static fertility rate, has been steadily growing. Emigration has reduced the natural increase substantially, but the net increase has been large enough to retard the economic growth of PR. Better progress would be made if 30,000 to 50,000 were not being added to the pop yearly. L. P. Chall.