Quote by 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

“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

Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone…

— Indira Gandhi

“It is important to remember that it is still only a minority of the world’s population that can be artificially fed from birth without…

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Thomas Piketty

“The 13 million babies born each year in the rich world will have a far greater impact on the Earth’s resources than the 120…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival.”

— Jennifer Block

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

— Emanuel Celler

“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

It is a country that professes to care for babies. But in the United States, the infant death rate is twice as high as…

— Annie Lowrey

“The primary reason that U.S. infant mortality is so high compared to other countries is that African Americans suffer a staggering rate. If Black…

— Laura Briggs

“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