Anticipate Quote by Jane Chen

“The idea that more dead babies will reduce world population is nonsense and in fact has the opposite effect. It has been demonstrated repeatedly…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5 Yet the increase in births still outpaced the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

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 must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or…

— Robert McNamara

I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per…

— Hans Rosling

The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.

— Bill Gates

Yes, population is a huge problem - birth rates are too high. And in order to take care of the environment, we have to…

— Paul Hawken

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can…

— Bill Gates

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

— Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.

— Ruth Simmons