Copied from the General Forum: Population Numbers

[DRoseDARs]

Population Box # = Population

Note : The "actual" population sometimes varies in relation to a given Population Box # by a few thousand citizens. Example: 1 = 48,000 & 2 = 40,000. Additionally, it may fluctuate each time you load a particular savegame. I do not know why that is, but I do know that it is annoying...

1 ~ 48,000
2 ~ 40,000
3 ~ 71,000
4 ~ 112,000
5 ~ 160,000
6 ~ 222,000
7 ~ 290,000
8 ~ 370,000
9 ~ 469,000
10 ~ 589,000
11 ~ 680,000
12 ~ 808,000
13 ~ 938,000
14 ~ 1,090,000
15 ~ 1,220,000
16 ~ 1,390,000
17 ~ 1,576,000
18 ~ 1,756,000
19 ~ 1,930,000
20 ~ 2,146,000
21 ~ 2,350,000
22 ~ 2,584,000
23 ~ 2,799,000
24 ~ 3,040,000
25 ~ 3,280,000
26 ~ 3,530,000
27 ~ 3,822,000
28 ~ 4,098,000
29 ~ 4,389,000
30 ~ 4,690,000
31 ~ 5,000,000
32 ~ 5,310,000
33 ~ 5,648,000
34 ~ 5,990,000
35 ~ 6,338,000
36 ~ 6,706,000
37 ~ 7,070,000
38 ~ 7,440,000
39 ~ 7,819,000
40 ~ 8,237,000
41 ~ 8,652,000
42 ~ 9,054,000
43 ~ 9,511,000
44 ~ 9,951,000
45 ~ 10,372,000
46 ~ 10,830,000
47 ~ 11,300,000
48 ~ 11,800,000
49 ~ 12,290,000
50 ~ 12,800,000

[Magius]

The scale is actualy a logrithmic scale. The formula is below....

City Population(Current)=City Population Number(Current) x 10000 + City Population(Previous or 1 Size Lower)

Example

If Size 1 = 10000 then this is how size 2 is done......

Population = 2 x 10000 + 10000
Population = 30000

If Size 10 = 550000 then this is how size 11 is done......

Population = 11 x 10000 + 550000
Population = 660000

[maciek]

Just to add my .02:

Pop(n+1) = n*10,000 + Pop(n)

js code:

var size; // city size (e.g. 5)

var i = 0;
var current = 0;

for (i = 1; i<=size; i ++) {
current = current + i*10000;
}

[maciek]

[Quasar1011]

Population density

What about the population of your entire civ? Often in the modern age, I will check the demographic page. It might say something like population: 75,000,000. But then my land area is about 100,000 square miles. This is much more crowded than California! It seems to me this is one area where the game is out of kilter. Yet, it's just a minor point

[Noble713]

The whole population/territory size thing is screwy. I've always wondered why I'll control half of the world, with large heavily-developed cities, and have a population of a few hundred million. Then I did some calculations and discovered that the default "huge" map is actually about the size of the United States. So actually the problem isn't the population numbers, but the ridiculously small maps (in terms of land area).