Quotes About Demographics

Among the 150 members of the General Assembly of 1925, only two were women and four were Catholics; there were no Black or Jewish representatives.

The fastest-growing faction, comprising 40 percent of all Klan members, came from just three states—Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois

Nearly seven in ten Americans are still Christian. But if White Anglo-Saxon Protestants were indeed the rootstock of the United States, then the mother ground is nearly barren. What's happening is a mass exodus, particularly among the young: 71 percent of people aged eighteen to twenty-four say they have no religion.

Destinados al colectivo masculino con buen manejo de las tecnologías de entre veinticinco y cuarenta años de edad residentes en ciudades grandes de Estados Unidos, como San Francisco, Nueva York, Chicago, Los Ángeles, etc. (que me permitieran acelerar el crecimiento/la escalada con mi público).

Only 10 percent were middle class. The

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

78 million in 1900 to 230 million in 2000

Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

Thanks to the growing use of contraceptives, population expansion is slowing down, though not as much as it should.

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Centenarians are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population (increasing at the rate of 75,000 people per year).

Psychologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, found that the better educated and wealthier a nation is, the less likely its population is to believe in a higher being.

In the West Indies and South America, slaves were worked to death and replaced with fresh imports, but in the continental North American colonies of Great Britain the situation was the opposite. By about 1710, as Morgan notes, "Virginia's slave population began to grow from natural increase, an unprecedented event for any New World slave population.…In 1700 Virginia had 13,000 slaves; in 1730, 40,000; in 1750, 105,000, of whom nearly 80 percent were Virginia born.

But raw numbers can be misleading. In the Middle East heartland of Islam, the Shia are closer to fifty percent, and wherever oil reserves are richest—Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf coast, including eastern Saudi Arabia—they are in the majority.

In Mumbai, Marathi schools are shutting down and Urdu schools are increasing. The parties governing the BMC are giving permission to these schools. If Urdu schools are rising, you know whose numbers are increasing and who is coming to the city.

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

The 10 countries with the most people (over 100 million each) are, in descending order of population, China, India, the U.S., Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Russia, Japan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. The 10 countries with the highest affluence (per-capita real GDP) are, in descending order, Luxembourg, Norway, the U.S., Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, Austria, Canada, Ireland, and the Netherlands. The only country on both lists is the U.S.

An alternative way of expressing births is by what's called the total fertility rate: i.e., the total number of babies born to an average woman over her lifetime. For the whole world that number averages 2.5 babies; for the First World countries with the biggest economies, it varies between 1.3 and 2.0 babies (e.g., 1.9 for the U.S.). The number for Japan is only 1.27 babies, at the low end of the spectrum; South Korea and Poland are among the few countries with lower values.