You're right - more children OR if we had not increased food production per acre to levels beyond anything Malthus could have imagined in his wildest dreams. His math was fine but this future forecast was waaaaay off. Malthus - - right on the math, wrong on the path the future would take... which is almost always the rub.
“You’re right - more children OR if we had not increased food production per acre to levels beyond anything Malthus could have imagined in his wildest dreams.”
That does not compute. He predicted enough food for nine billion at this time, WELL over current levels, his only error was expecting people to continue having huge families. If not for declining birthrates the world would have been very different.