overpopulation

overpopulated | American Dictionary

overpopulated
adjective
us/ˌoʊ·vərˈpɑp·jəˌleɪ·t̬ɪd/
having too many people or animals for the amount of food, materials, and space available

overpopulation

noun[ U ]us/ˌoʊ·vərˌpɑp·jəˈleɪ·ʃən/

Examples of overpopulated

overpopulated
They are particularly rare in the difficult and not overpopulated field of comparative urban history and this is an excellent example of the genre.
In the 1890s, people were deserting the countryside for overpopulated cities.
There they had the possibility to form an independent household earlier than would have been the case in the overpopulated rural districts.
The act of producing another fatherless child in this world doesn't seem like an obvious contribution toward promoting the general good or happiness on an already overpopulated planet.
Above all, the almost universal suboptimality of household farming in this overpopulated society tends to retract various modernization benefits of large-scale collective farming such as mechanization and specialization.
In countries that are already overpopulated relative to usable capital and land, this marginal product is some fraction of the average annual product of labour, perhaps as low as one-third.
I submit that we have reached the limit in this island, and that we are overpopulated.
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