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Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing. -- Lester R. Brown
An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million. -- Gary Miller
Women are over 50 percent of the population. -- Natalie Dormer
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. -- Bobby Scott
A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services. -- Stephen Covey
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there. -- Grimes
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Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago. -- Meir Kahane
As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed. -- Bill Nye
Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically. -- Ralph Merkle
The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent. -- Anthony Pratt
The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them. -- Andrew Lo
The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population. -- Herbert A. Simon
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country. -- Boris Yeltsin
There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers. -- Li Peng
Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture. -- Debbie Stabenow
Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day. -- David Rose
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses. -- Bill James
The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers. -- Janis Karpinski
No Muslim country has ever done as much as Turkey to make itself over in the image of a European nation-state; the country's westernised elite brutally imposed secularism, among other things, on its devout population of peasants. -- Pankaj Mishra
The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever. -- David Sills
Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth... -- Al Gore
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ? -- Michel Foucault
Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants. -- Ted Turner
Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit. -- William Ralph Inge

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