Quotes about Population

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

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

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

Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.

those registered to the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

those registered to the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.

those registered to the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

those registered to the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

those registered to the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.