According to Thomas Malthus, food supplies tend to increase arithmetically while populations tend to increase exponentially, which means that populations will outgrow their food supply.

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Thomas Malthus argued in his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) that while food supply increases arithmetically (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.), population grows exponentially (1, 2, 4, 8, etc.), leading to a situation where the population would outstrip its means of subsistence.

According to Thomas Malthus, Food Supplies Tend to Increase Arithmetically