Our world is seriously overpopulated. The past 200 years have seen exponential human population growth. Reaching one billion people in 1804, it took 123 years to get the next billion. In less than half that time, we went from three billion in 1959 to seven billion in 2012. Anyone who lives in a city knows how dense the world has become and how pervasive overpopulation has become. See just how crowded we are in this list of 25 Ridiculously Crowded Photos of Earth’s Overpopulation.
A Buddhist gathering

The Kaaba at al-Haram Mosque in Mecca at the start of the Hajj (pilgrimage)

Muslim refugees crowding into a train to Pakistan after the partition of India & Pakistan in 1947

More Pakistani refugees showing even greater global overpopulation

An overcrowded Bangladeshi train

Rainy day at Japan's Shibuya Station Crossing under a sea of umbrellas

The 2008 Summer Olympics torch rally in Shenzen, China

Even animals are overpopulated in some areas! Ducks in one of Gothenberg, Sweden's unfrozen lakes

Rocinha: the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro

The Nada-no Kenka Matsuri in Japan

Chiang Mai's Night Market

Cyclists in Copenhagen

Traffic jam in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Protesting crowd at a G-20 Summit in London

Aerial photo of São Paolo's crowded downtown

An overcrowded beach

Cathedral Square in Ulm, Germany

Shibuya Station Crossing in Japan

A crowd at a concert in Paris

Rage Against the Machine performing at the 2008 Republican National Convention

The 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.

Bicycles in Amsterdam

The love locks on Pont des Arts in Paris (the bridge has nearly collapsed)

The crowded Taipei Metro

Movie star Douglas Fairbanks encouraging a crowd in 1918 New York City to buy Liberty Loans (U.S. war bonds to pay for World War I)
