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by eru 3886 days ago
Singapore is doing fine at high population density.
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Singapore doesn't exist in a vacuum. An enormous amount of foreign low population density agricultural land is sustaining their lifestyles.
Singapore is very developed. Overpopulation is more a problem for densely populated developing places - Bangladesh, Victorian London, South American shanty towns et cetera.
Yes. Though they only developed in the last 50 years.