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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 37645 |
| QUOTATION: | Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834), British economist, sociologist. An Essay on the Principle of Population, ch. 1 (1798). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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