This is very old but important.
Selling population is considered harmful and it influences all your countries.
it has a depressing effect on your score which is repaired very slowly.
In general, population sales are remembered for some time and selling countries after such events is prohibited.
there was a time, presidents sold a lot of population for gold coins, then sold or deregister the country.
This is possible but the entire empire is suffering a drop of its score and it takes a long time to repair.
our advise is not to sell population.
the repair time can be reduced is you repurchase population.