overpopulation.

A population level judged to exceed the relevant resources, infrastructure or ecological capacity under stated conditions.

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Words that belong together

• urban overpopulation
• overpopulation relative to resources

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The analysis treated urban overpopulation as a claim requiring a stated capacity measure.

Overpopulation relative to resources depended on consumption, distribution and infrastructure as well as numbers.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: social explanation, distributional analysis, population description, concept distinction. Disciplines: social science, economics, public policy. Commonness: moderately common.