Some articles on population, official:
... Human population control is the practice of artificially altering the rate of growth of a human population ... Historically, human population control has been implemented by limiting the population's birth rate, usually by government mandate, and has been undertaken as a response to factors including high or increasing ... While population control can involve measures that improve people's lives by giving them greater control of their reproduction, some programs have exposed them to exploitation ...
... Country (or dependent territory) Area (km²) Area (mi²) Population Density (Pop./km²) Density (Pop./mi²) Date Source World (land only, excluding Antarctica) 134,94 ... Country (or dependent territory) Area (km²) Area (mi²) Population Density (Pop./km²) Density (Pop./mi²) Date Source ...
... Its population was estimated to be around 6.5 million in 2012 ... The official language is Lao ... and culturally dominant Lao people making up approximately sixty percent of the population, mostly in the lowlands ...
... Its population density has been estimated at 116 people per km², and it would be ranked 95th if it were included in the list (population 503,492,041 on January 1, 2012, area 4,324,782 km2) ... See also List of regional organizations by population ... The most densely populated sovereign nation is Monaco, with a population density of 16,754 people/km2 ...
... Cornwall's population was 535,300 at the last count (2010), and population density 144 people per square kilometre, ranking it 40th and 41st respectively compared with the other 47 counties of England ... White British and has a relatively high level of population growth. 1980s and 5.3% in the 1990s, it has the fifth highest population growth of the English counties ...
Famous quotes containing the words clock, official and/or population:
““Pop” Wyman ruled here with a firm but gentle hand; no drunken man was ever served at the bar; no married man was allowed to play at the tables; across the face of the large clock was written “Please Don’t Swear,” and over the orchestra appeared the gentle admonition, “Don’t Shoot the Pianist—He’s Doing His Damndest.””
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program. Colorado: A Guide to the Highest State (The WPA Guide to Colorado)
“... it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)