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ELI5: How do poor/third world countries support such high populations?

How do poor/third world countries support such high populations? Is the standard of living so low that everybody can just barely get by? How come so many countries in Africa are considered 3rd world but can maintain a growing population despite disease, famine, and civil war?

I'd like to be enlightened to the truth behind all this and have my potential misconceptions destroyed.
gpt
> Is the standard of living so low that everybody can just barely get by?

This. Not only that, but in many places, people DON'T actually get by. People starve to death every day on this earth.

The fact is, many of these countries CAN'T sustain the population growth that they have.