***. — Eighth Report on the Demographic Situation of France. The growth rate of the population has fallen since 1975. The age distribution is changing slowly. In spite of the drop in the birth rate, the proportion of people aged 60 and over continues to decline on account of the smaller number of births which occurred during the First World War. The marriage rate has been declining since 1972 and the average age at marriage is tending to rise as is the number of divorces. Both period and cohort fertility are estimated. The fall in fertility caused mainly by the sharp decrease in third-order births differs between the regions and is less marked in the Paris region than in the provinces. The registration of deliberate terminations of pregnanc...