History Quote by Geoffrey West

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

— Thomas Piketty

“typical modern households live in urban environments where they earn incomes through some form of wage work and buy food produced by others. In…

— David Christian

“Far less tragic—and certainly less attention-grabbing—was a second, very profound event that also happened in 2008. Its exact timing will never be known, but…

— Laurence C. Smith

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents,…

— Hari Sreenivasan

By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon…

— Eduardo Paes

“In 35 years, 50 percent of our population will live in our cities. Most other countries will be in a similar situation. We need…

— Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

“the rate of population growth observed from 1700 to 2012—0.8 percent per year—were to continue for the next three centuries, the world’s population would…

— Thomas Piketty

It must be acknowledged that an increasing proportion of the world's population is living in cities, in almost completely human-made environments. But we should…

— David Wong

In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at…

— Stephen Hawking

“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

“.."consider this. It took the earth's population thousand of years-from the early dawn of man all the way to the early 1800s-to reach one…

— Dan Brown

Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population.

— Carlo Ratti