Quotes About Demographics

Though they are only 12 percent of the population, blacks commit more than half of all rapes and robberies and 60 percent of the murders in America.6

The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington is in it, or Fantasia's in it, it's a lot of old white people and gay men.

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

The year I was born 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

One of the constants of mass psychology is that, for example, when the Huns show up, the Goths move on looking for greener pastures without any Huns. In the United States we can see this, in proto form, in California, where the population of the culturally Anglo are leaving in greater numbers than are coming in.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

In 2018, there were 867 cars for every thousand people in the United States, 520 in the European Union. Compare that to the 339 in Russia, the 208 in Brazil, the 160 in China—and just 37 in India. In other words, the world's auto population will grow substantially as incomes rise and the number of people increases from today's 7.8 billion to 9.5 or 10 billion.

More white children live in poverty than any other race. Data from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) placed America's 13 million poor kids into the following categories: 4.2 million are Caucasian, 4 million are Latino, 3.6 million are African American, and 400,000 are Asian. Another 200,000 are American Indian.

Every four seconds a baby boomer turns fifty

When you live in Vancouver, you realize most of the population is in eastern North America.

Market segmentation s a natural result of the vast differences among people.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

Vermont's a very liberal state.

The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn't care about demographics and social compatibility.

In 1960 there were fewer than a million Asians in America, less than half of whom were foreign-born. By 1970, five years after Hart-Celler, the Asian American population had grown to 1.5 million, 55 percent foreign-born—and by 1980, it had more than doubled to 3.5 million, 71 percent of whom were foreign-born.

In 1922 there were barely a hundred people living in the village. Fewer than half of those were women. Of forty-seven women, twenty-one were old ladies. Another twenty were middle-aged wives. Three were young mothers, each with a daughter in diapers. One was his sister. That left two marriageable girls. Whom Desdemona now rushed to nominate.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years.

We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

50 per cent of the people died before the age of thirty, and 90 per cent before the age of fifty.

The England of Edward I was more populous than that of Elizabeth I or of George II.

One third, or even perhaps one half, of the population died. There had never been mortality on this scale, nor has there been since. At the best estimation a population of approximately 6 million was reduced to 3 million or 4 million. It remained at this level until the early sixteenth century.

What makes demographics such a rewarding opportunity for the entrepreneur is precisely its neglect by decision makers, whether businessmen, public-service staffs, or governmental policymakers. They still cling to the assumption that demographics do not change – or do not change fast. Indeed, they reject even the plainest evidence of demographic changes.

Reflecting this difference is the Indian state of Kerala. Although it is one of the poorer parts of the country, it has higher literacy and greater gender equality than much of the rest of India. Without resorting to a coercive approach such as a "one-child policy" Kerala has achieved a rate of population growth lower than China's and also lower than that in some developed countries, including