 If Krell's numbers are to be believed (others have slightly different numbers) the Mission Indian population had declined from a peak of about 87,000 in about 1800 to about 14,000 in 1832 and continued to decline.The Missions were becoming ever more strained as the number of Indian converts drastically declined and the deaths greatly exceeded the births.The ratio of Indian births to deaths is believed to have been less than 0.5 Indian births per death.