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Most "Overpopulated" Countries
What countries are the most "overpopulated" based on how many people they would have to lose before their population density was the same as the global average?
Population as of 18 September 2024. Source.
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So not enough to make the list.
All the while making it a point about density.. which should be the actual measurement for such a quiz
Seems a lot of people in the comments didn't quite grasp it.
Of course, there is no such thing as "overpopulation" in my personal opinion. The more people there are, the better our lives all become!
Or everyone has to adjust by sacrificing nicer things, like bigger houses & cars, and accepting worse materials etc. And people do NOT like that
Most densely populated countries by population-weighted density
Least densely populated countries by population-weighted density
And I guess only @ 6-7 million people died from covid.
Even countries like Iran and Brazil are no having far too few children to sustain their population.
So join the cool kids. Stop worrying about overpopulation, and start worrying about underpopulation.
"Underpopulation" is what happens when people don't have enough children to maintain a stable population. For a theoretical example, if everyone in a society has only one kid, the society's population would half every lifespan. Many countries have fertility rates below replacement rate.
From Wikipedia: "Underpopulation is usually defined as a state in which a country's population has declined too much to support its current economic system."
This Wikipedia page covers many of the concerns various people have about population decline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline#Possible_consequences
nice quiz by the way.
Population density is my favourite geographic subject and this approaches it in the most interesting way... Thanks for that!
"What countries are the most 'overpopulated' based on how many people they would have to lose before their population density was the same as the global average?"
The quiz is asking for the *sheer number of people* that would need to be lost for the country to have average population density. Countries like Singapore and Monaco would need to lose a much higher percentage of their population than the countries on this list, but not a higher number of individual people, because there's not many people living in those tiny countries on the global scale.
Granted the Nile has some of the most fertile soil on the planet & is one of the oldest inhabited civilizations, but 115,000,000 people in a country that's 96% desert? I just can't see it ending well (and I say this as an Indian!)
That said, I wouldn't worry about food shortages in the near term. Global food production has grown much faster than population.
If you look at the yields of every major crop, they are WAY up in the last 20 years. And countries like Egypt will continue to see large gains in the future just by catching up to U.S. standards.
Today, the world has more calories available per person than ever before in its history. Each year, the percentage of people who are starving gets lower and lower.
The thing that will cause global hunger is not absolute shortages, but warfare or mismanagement that prevents the distribution of food. That's why Venezuela has a problem with hunger, despite a very low population density.
Is this average (that the countries excede) just people per country, regardless of density? If so, still some of these answers suprise me.