#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use feature qw{ say };

*ARGV = *DATA{IO} unless @ARGV;

my %greater_than;
while (<>) {
    my $col9 = (split)[8];
    $col9 > $_ and ++$greater_than{$_} for 1 .. 10;
}

for my $num (sort { $a <=> $b } keys %greater_than) {
    say "$greater_than{$num} values in column 9 were greater than $num";
}

__DATA__
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5