Listen "Which Is Worse: Underpopulation Or Overpopulation?"
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Overpopulation: a situation in which there are too many people for the amount of food, materials, and space available.
Underpopulation: a situation in which there are too few people to realize the economic potential of an area or support its population's standard of living.
Exponential growth: a pattern of data that shows greater increases with passing time, creating the curve of an exponential function.
Extreme poverty: an income below the international poverty line of ~$2/day
Total fertility rate: the average number of children born to each woman over her lifetime.
Population bomb: a theory that the human population would grow faster than available food supplies.
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Overpopulation: a situation in which there are too many people for the amount of food, materials, and space available.
Underpopulation: a situation in which there are too few people to realize the economic potential of an area or support its population's standard of living.
Exponential growth: a pattern of data that shows greater increases with passing time, creating the curve of an exponential function.
Extreme poverty: an income below the international poverty line of ~$2/day
Total fertility rate: the average number of children born to each woman over her lifetime.
Population bomb: a theory that the human population would grow faster than available food supplies.
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
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If you like what we do, you can help us!
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