Quotes About Population

Correctional officers, who lack resources for caring for the elderly, are also systematically hostile to providing medical treatment of prisoners, even though "the graying of the prison population has become a national epidemic afflicting states around the country—from California to Missouri to Florida.

Incredibly, while native-born citizens accounted for 66 percent of the total population growth from 2000 to 2014, immigrants have accounted for 100 percent of employment growth.50 Therefore, the working-age population in America is growing faster than jobs are being created, and the increasing supply of immigrants makes

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.

Depression is taking a staggering toll on the modern world. Around 10 percent of the population can expect to become clinically depressed over the coming year. And things are likely to become worse. The World health Organization1 estimates that depression will impose the second-biggest health burden globally by 2020. Think about that for a moment. Depression will impose a bigger burden than heart disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer on both individuals and society in less than a decade.

More than 175 million people use Facebook. If it were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world.

In today's global economy, two billion people – more than 61 per cent of the world's employed population – make their living in the informal economy (ILO 2018a).

After the reforms, US immigration to Texas did not stop, and by 1835 the Anglo-American population had grown to over 30,000.40 The enslaved population increased from 2,000 when General Mier y Terán issued his report to 5,000 in 1836.41

Given our current system of property ownership, it makes sense that we would see greater wealth inequality in places where there's greater population density because land values command a greater percentage of the financial resources in the denser areas and only flow into the hands of those who own land.

By 1914, approximately 85,000 Jews resided in Palestine, of whom about 35,000 had arrived in recent decades.

la guerra era una forma derrochadora y brutal de combatir la presión demográfica. Pero a falta de anticonceptivos eficaces o de posibilidades de abortar bajo control médico, la alternativa era también derrochadora y brutal: subalimentación, hambre, enfermedades y una vida breve, pobre y mezquina para todo el mundo.

la presión demográfica no es un factor estático, sino un proceso de deterioro progresivo de la balanza entre el esfuerzo humano en la producción de alimentos y la satisfacción de necesidades, por una parte, y el resultado de tal esfuerzo, por otra.

It is also clear that the original performances, in public celebrations of all kinds, from religious festivals to the 'after-party' of triumphs, were unruly, raucous occasions, attracting a wide cross section of the population of the city, including women and slaves. This is in sharp contrast to classical Athens, where the theatre audience, though larger than at Rome, was probably restricted to male citizens, unruly or not.

in the reign of the emperor Nero, when someone had the bright idea to make slaves wear uniforms, it was rejected on the grounds that this would make clear to the slave population just how numerous they were.

some historians reckon that, by the second century CE, the majority of the free citizen population of the city of Rome had slaves somewhere in their ancestry.

At a very rough guess there might have been between 1.5 and 2 million slaves in Italy in the middle of the first century BCE, making up perhaps 20 per cent of the total population. They

There was the enormous disparity of wealth between rich and poor, the squalid living conditions for most of the population, and probably for much of the time, even if not starvation, then persistent hunger.