Belarus (White Russia) Population
According to the 1933 census, White Russia counts 5,439,000 residents, against 5,246,400 in 1931, 4,983,000 in 1926, 3,724,000 in 1897; the population has therefore grown by about 50% in the last fifty years, which represents a little different rate from that recorded for the USSR as a whole. in 1927 (against 44.2%, for the USSR as a whole), but the mortality rate was also lower (14.1% as against 22.3% in the same year 1927), so that the active surplus results….