Quotes About Demographics

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.

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

Since the baby boomer generation, the middle-income group has grown smaller with each successive generation

Republicans can continue to win elections nationally for a few more years by relying on a base of older, less educated white voters, but that strategy will prove less and less successful as the number of people of color continues to grow. By 2044, whites are expected to be a minority in America—very bad news for a party that has alienated everyone who isn't white.

Back then the population was 83% white; today the exact opposite is true.

At the time of Christ the world population stood at about 200 million. By AD 1200 the world population had doubled to about 400 million. By the time of the American Revolution, in 1776, the world population had doubled again, to about 800 million. The population doubled again by 1900, to about 1.6 billion. The population doubled again by 1960, to more than 3 billion.1 From the time of Christ the population doubles in

El primer y más importante motor de la protesta fue la realidad demográfica de los jóvenes en países como Túnez, Egipto y Siria, personas más sanas y mejor preparadas que nunca, pero sin trabajo y profundamente frustradas.

every year 65 million people are added to the world's urban population, equivalent to adding seven cities the size of Chicago or five the size of London annually.

15 percent of the adult population in major cities like Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London.

Nothing like this had occurred in Virginia before. Slavery had been slow to take hold, with only around 150 slaves counted in 1640, and barely 1,000 out of a total population of 26,000 in 1670. Massachusetts and English possessions in the Caribbean, not Virginia, were the first colonies to codify slave law.

Africa at the start of the twentieth century, Christians were only 9 percent of the population; today they are 44 percent.

According to the detailed US census of 1860, which enumerated slaves and slaveholders in its "Agriculture" supplement, the 347,525 owners of one or more slaves constituted only 4.3 percent of the 8,039,000 "whites" in the fifteen slaveholding states (eleven of which would shortly secede) and 2.86 percent of the population of those states as a whole.

The next five decades would each show a growth of the enslaved population of never less than 24 percent—

If the altered demographic profile of the two parties in the 2016 election—almost perfectly replicated in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections—is signaling America's newest political realignment, it would be the first since the Nixon-Reagan elections of 1968 to 1980, roughly forty to fifty years earlier. By Walter Dean Burnham's count (as we saw in Chapter 4), that would suggest America is now moving into its seventh party system.

people born in Cuba represented less than 1% of the U.S. population but committed 41% of Medicare fraud.

In sum, before an eighteenth-century boom in the African slave trade, between one-half and two-thirds of all early white immigrants to the British colonies in the Western Hemisphere came as unfree laborers, some 300,000 to 400,000 people.

most Americans can be identified by name and address using only their ZIP code, birthday, and gender—

As went Yamhill, so went much of white, working-class America. One of the strongest predictors of support for Trump in any county was the share of whites with just a high-school diploma or less.

The black population of Chicago grew from 44,000 in 1910 to 109,000 in 1920, and then to 234,000 in 1930. A local commission on race relations reported that 50,000 black people had moved to Chicago from the South in eighteen months during the war. The

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the industrial revolution.

The two most pressing problems of the contemporary world: demographic expansion and genetic deterioration are unsolvable. Liberal principles prevent the solution of the first, egalitarian ones that of the second.

Maybe as many as two thousand in the US, five or six hundred in Canada, and about four hundred in Mexico.

The young family with a batch of kids is now an endangered species. Only the young rich can afford that "lifestyle," and they are uninterested. With

The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.