Can we see a planets population?

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I would like to be able to see my planet's population in the thousands, millions or billions. Does anyone know if you can do this?

This screenshot from the last DD is all we have to go by atm.
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I think what you see here is the growth of this particular tile though, not the whole planet. Still, I don't think they'll give a real number, only an abstract figure... and it makes sense. I can't imagine it could be an accurate or believable number in every cases so they might as well not disclose it and leave it to the player's discretion.
 
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I think that growth is not the population of the entire planet, but the growth of the POP he has selected.
It's the population of that one tile. It's probably got some level of abstraction, but since no buildings are visible it's not actually possible to be sure about how abstracted it is. My money is on something like n pops = 100*n people.