Malthus
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, noted for his influential argument that population growth would inevitably outstrip food supply.
“The debate on global food security frequently invokes the predictions of Malthus regarding population limits.”
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