Population Statistics Quotes

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

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

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

In 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, there was a census of Jerusalem of which there is a cable copy in the British Foreign Office. There were 15,000 residents. Of those, 8,000, the majority were Jewish. After the Jews were ejected from the city when their Kingdom fell, the slowly began returning. And in 1863 they had become the majority, not in 1963 or any other time after the establishment of Israel.

One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down from my column at "Newsweek" because I wanted to make room for newer, fresh voices out there, I discovered that in the year I was born, 1952, the average life expectancy of an American was 68. I was shocked by that figure and every time I mention it I hear a gasp from somebody in the crowd. Now, of course, we're more or less at 80, so that means that we've gotten 12 additional years.

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

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

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.

Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1.4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country.

Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

I read something in the paper that really confused me the other day. It said that 80 percent of the people in New York are minorities. Shouldn't you not call them minorities when they get to be 80 percent of the population? That's a very white attitude, don't you think? I mean, you could take a white guy to Africa and he'd be like 'Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.'

Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.

Women are over 50 percent of the population.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

To really know what progress we’re making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The simple act of counting is an expression of a country’s intent to take care of its people.

Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.

There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

It is entirely reasonable to want to know how many citizens and non-citizens there are in the United States.

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

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

I think that in L.A., one thing that nobody will ever talk about is, for instance, how just one in five kids in L.A. County is white, so when you're looking out there, it's a very brown city.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.