But the number has actually decreased, to 281 from 299.
The numbers have decreased in six of the last seven years.
The number had decreased to one or two a year by the 1990s.
But the number decreased to 17 in 1989 and to 8 last year.
He also said the number of calls to an information phone line decreased as the first week went on.
By then their numbers had decreased to about 800 from 4,500 in 1859.
The number of people or families making less than $10,000 a year decreased from 1,020,964 to 718,748.
For the world as a whole, the number of children born per woman decreased from 5.02 to 2.65 between 1950 and 2005.
Two years ago, the number decreased to a little more than 6,500.
Their number has decreased by 500 000 in the last 15 years.