What does 1 pop equal out to be in population numbers?
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It seems quite high actually. Current estimates are that population will plateau soon.
As earlier pointed out here I think it is a mistake to assume that:
1) 1 pop is equal the same number of individuals for every species. The amount of population required to perform various task should varry a lot from species to species.
2) That The number of pops on a planet scale linearly to the number of individuals. I think it make more sense to assign the first pops on a planet (delivered by a colony ship and produced by early growth) a much lower number of individuals than the the 25th. E.g. a 5 pop planet might have 500 million inhabitants, while a 25 pop one have 25 billion.
1) 1 pop is equal the same number of individuals for every species. The amount of population required to perform various task should varry a lot from species to species.
2) That The number of pops on a planet scale linearly to the number of individuals. I think it make more sense to assign the first pops on a planet (delivered by a colony ship and produced by early growth) a much lower number of individuals than the the 25th. E.g. a 5 pop planet might have 500 million inhabitants, while a 25 pop one have 25 billion.
Then either those 500 million people are eating very well or those 25 billion people are getting really close to "I only eat because I like the way food tastes".
Estimates don't account for a lot of possible things. Few suspected population would sextuple between 1900-2000.
I don't know about that. According to the Smithsonian, in 1900 the Boston Globe guessed that the USA would have between 350 million and 500 million people, back when the country only had 76 million people. A single source, but I'm not going to AskHistorians just yet.
Anyway, demographical developments seem to be less settled than I thought they were, so let's just say that Earth's 2200 population of 8 Pops could equal very different amounts of people depending on which route the future takes for us.
