That`s too bad for the rest of the world
Highly unlikely. The path for a "Malthusian catastrophe" hyped up by population control obsessives in China is long gone at this point. Now the one child policy is having a distorting defect on gender ratios and is very much a negative policy.
That said, things would probably be a lot easier on this planet for all concerned if we still had the global population of the 1980s.
Exactly. Yeah, some elevators have a maximum capacity of 20 people. You could fit 20 people in their if you absolutely had to but wouldn't everybody really rather ride an elevator that was only half full?