Englishdearth
noun
there is a dearth of properly trained specialists:
lack, scarcity, scarceness, shortage, shortfall, want, deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, paucity, sparseness, meagreness, scantiness, rareness, infrequency, uncommonness, destitution, privation;
famine, drought, poverty;
absence, non-existence;
rare exiguity, exiguousness.
▷antonyms abundance; surfeit.
dearth Oxford Dictionary of English