Growth Quote by Emanuel Celler

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

— Garrett Hardin

“the population of the world grew at an average annual rate of barely 0.8 percent between 1700 and 2012.”

— Thomas Piketty

“In 1800 the United States had a birth rate higher than any ever recorded for a European country, but it fell steeply and consistently…

— Richard White

“There is no country in the world that has a higher birth rate than it had in 1960, and in the less developed world…

— Matt Ridley

In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of…

— David Attenborough

If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this reason, a…

— Greg Ip

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought…

— Bill Gates

One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating…

— Aristotle

This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their…

— Jane Chen

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration,…

— Susan Oliver

The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our…

— David Attenborough

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

— Thomas Malthus