W3C - population

The next upgrade coming Monday, will increase the number of births again.

This means that the number of people in the 0 to 4 years old group should increase.

It is no guarantee that the population will immediately start growing. This depends also on the health index but also on death rates and it all depends on the distribution of your population in the various age groups.

If you have many in the 18 ti 40 groups, you will have more babies.
if you have many in the 55 to 80 groups, you will have many people dying.

We have also improved the model for computing natural death in all age groups.
we think this will help.
and we have repaired the computation of life expectancy.
we expect life expectancy numbers to go from where they are now (too high or too low), towards a true life expectancy number.

The change will be gradual and may take some time to stabilize.

As birth rates have a s

I just checked some age groups in two of my countries.

I saw that the number of people in the 4 to 8 years old, is LARGER than the number in the 0 to 4 years old.

This is should not be the case.
some kids die and the number in the next age group should be slightly lower.

This means that the number of babies is too low.

I would like to see a change there, not immediately but soon, showing the number of people in the 0 to 4 years, growing and surpassing the 4 to 8 years age group.

Then, the same should happen to the next group.

All of course, assuming that your health index is high, at least 120, pushing death numbers lower.

Andy,

Thank you so much for the update I appreciate it.

Question,
What do you as the GM expect to become the new equilibrium rate for population? I "HAD" 230 million over 2 real months ago and I'm at 195M and still losing large amounts of population despite a 193 healthcare index. Meaning these large numbers are not sustainable. In the past I had no problem buying GC and keeping my numbers stable. However now I would expect to spend by my numbers 150GC or more a month in just population transfers just to maintain the population.
I don't mind paying GC in the mean time to weather the storm so to speak until the changes are made, but I'd like to ask what you think they will be. The GM has encouraged larger nations, economies, and populations but we have no idea on where your standard is ATM. The Game rule requirements are outdated and then we get bit and piece information on the forums, for those of us with med-

I understand the consequences of the decline in population.
we are coming from a situation where this was taking place if your population was over 60M.
we have gradually changed, removed any hard or soft limits (or increased them to very high levels) and we are following suite with higher birth rates and smaller declines that kick in later.

do not expect you population to start growing fast at 185M but you shoul in time see some changes.
or we might add more to it later.

Andy,

Thank you very much for your time on this matter.
I agree with the GM. As a larger Veteran player I acknowledge and expect that I should have to work harder to maintain a higher population nation. I just wanted to know your thoughts that way I can plan appropriately and I can provide solid info to other players.

Thank you very much for the info.