That’s what Gaurav says, and I agree.

When I was a child, it occurred to me that population was the wrong measure; we should be looking at population density. So I read up a bit about population density and in some book was written words to the effect that “though there are more prosperous countries which have a higher population density than India, India’s population is still considered high when compared against her available resources”

I don’t remember the exact words, but they were more highfalutin than that, so naturally I didn’t understand what it was saying. A couple of years later, when I reread the book (an atlas actually) I realised that they were saying that India was considered to be overpopulated because she was poor. So the reasoning was circular. India was poor because we were overpopulated. The population density was not actually high, but when compared with what resources we had, we were overpopulated.

That formative experience made me distrustful of experts and their big words.