Outline how overpopulation is a major cause of poverty

Overpopulation means that in a nation there isn't enough resources to maintain the populations sustainably. Leads to a lot of other issues that further exacerbate poverty:congestion over crowdingspread of infectious diseases water and food scarcitystrain on infrastructure and public services pollution habitat loss due to intensive farming and overgrazing of land inequality of wealth

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