Dan Brown Quotes

In only 37 years, our population will grow by a number equivalent to all the people in the world at the beginning of World War II.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.

We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.

By the year 2040, the world's population is likely to increase by about 2 billion people, with also projected economic output will be up about 130 percent versus the year 2010.

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

If allowed to continue, the population will increase by 12 million—two more Scotlands—in 20 years. That’s huge.

By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

For if we can remove the turbulent Gallics [French], our people according to exactest computations, will in another century, become even more numerous than England itself.

Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today there are 38 million, despite the catastrophe of AIDS, which we have also tackled. The Ugandans know and appreciate this, especially the elderly.

In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.

As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.