Are beginning Victoria 2 populations accurate?

[supersporian]

I was using them as a benchmark in a forum game, and just wanted to make sure. Are they?

 

[sgt.stickybomb]

They actually show the adult male population only. to see see the total population number, go to the ledger.

 

[Will Steel]

That's right. It only shows the adult male population. Just move your mouse over the population tab where it shows the number, the tooltip should tell you the total population (which is 4 times the number of displayed adult male population).

 

[Admiral Fisker]

As far as Denmark's population goes, no. Southern Schleswig should be majority Danish in 1836, and majority German in 1861. In the game it's majority German both in 1836 and 1861.

 

[GAGA Extrem]

Vicky 2 pops are a compromise between historical numbers, gameplay related abstraction and engine related optimization.

 

[iron0037]

In 1836, Texas should have a total population of about 30,000 Texans, 5,000 slaves, 15,000 native Americans, and 3,500 Mexicans. I was impressed with how close Vicky2 was to those figures. Mexico should have 7 million and the US 15 million. Haven't checked how accurate they are, and I'm not at home to fire the game up.

 

[War_lord]

Aren't jewish pops in Europe severely underestimated at game start? I seem to remember reading that this was the case.

 

[Will Steel]

They got the population remarkably accurate in many parts. For example, the historical population of India in 1700 was around 170-180 million, and by the time of collapse of the last Indian Empires (1813-1857) that would've been around 250-300 million. Which is not too far from in-game population figures.