Quotes About Demographics

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

Library users are eighty percent male, and librarians are eighty percent female, so that's something to keep in mind.

Louis XIV had sent hundred of soldiers--all men--to New France. These soldiers wanted to start families... But there were six men for every woman... [Louis XIV] announced that he would pay young Frenchwomen large amounts of money if they would go and live in the colonies. Many young women accepted the King's offer...

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I just feel that sooner or later, the sheer potential of the demographics of India, which is 1.25 billion people, will eventually be very attractive to the entertainment industry.

After Cortés, the population of the entire region collapsed. By 1620–25, it was 730,000, "approximately 3 percent of its size at the time that he first landed." Cook and Borah calculated that the area did not recover its fifteenth-century population until the late 1960s.

Alan L. Kolata excavated at Tiwanaku during the 1980s and early 1990s. He has written that by 1000 A.D. the city had a population of as much as 115,000, with another quarter million in the surrounding countryside—numbers that Paris would not reach for another five centuries.

When Columbus landed, Cook and Borah concluded, the central Mexican plateau alone had a population of 25.2 million. By contrast, Spain and Portugal together had fewer than ten million inhabitants. Central Mexico, they said, was the most densely populated place on earth, with more than twice as many people per square mile than China or India.

The whole point of a representative sample is that it looks like the underlying population.

Out of 160 physicians in Nigeria in the early 1950s, 76 were Yorubas, 49 were Ibos and only one was Hausa-Fulani.

By 1912, the British Empire had a population of more than 440 million people, of whom only 10 percent lived in the British Isles.41

Census taking is among the oldest ways of collecting statistics. Much newer, but with similar aspirations to reach everyone, is "big data." Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger of Oxford's Internet Institute, and coauthor of the book Big Data, told me that his favored definition of a big dataset is one where "N = All"—where we no longer have to sample, because we have the entire background population.[18

the female to male ratio among the newly born is a constant, with a very slight prevalence of males.

The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

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.

The great spiritual bond is Islam, yet in India, the chief seat of brown population, Islam is professed by only one-fifth of the inhabitants. Nevertheless,

As to the 1,150,000,000 of the colored world, they are divided, as already stated, into four primary categories: yellows, browns, blacks, and reds.

China remains not only the cultural but also the territorial and racial centre of the yellow world. Four-fifths of the yellow race is concentrated in China, there being nearly 400,000,000 Chinese as against 60,000,000 Japanese, 16,000,000 Koreans, 26,000,000 Indo-Chinese, and perhaps 10,000,000 people of non-Chinese stocks included within China's political frontiers. The

migrations which would swamp whole populations and turn countries now white into colored man's lands irretrievably lost to the white world.

When the Common Era began—by the year one, that is—eight out of every ten humans lived between the Atlantic coast of Europe and the shores of the South China Sea.

In the year 800, traditional estimates say that about 90 percent of our species lived in the temperate belt of Africa and Eurasia, somewhere north of the equator, and another 6 percent lived in sub-Saharan Africa, mostly along the perimeter of the continent. The Americas supposedly had about 3 percent of the world's population, although that number is pretty speculative and much disputed.

Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?

The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

In the 1990s the world's population for the first time exceeded six billion, more than three times what it had been when the First World War broke out.