Civ Population To Real Life Population

[76561198098007469]

I was wondering if anybody had a suggestion or might even know some developer said ratio for civ population like 1,2,7,15 etc to real life like 100,000, 300,000 or 1,000,000

[Shlendigela]

I like to think its 1:10,000

[The Rock God]

I'm too lazy to go looking for it, but someone at Civfanatics had checked the demographics at each population level.

Edit:
Broke down and looked for it.
Each number is a level of pop, starting with pop1.

1,000
6,000
21,000
48,000
90,000
150,000
232,000
337,000
469,000
630,000
823,000
1,051,000
1,315,000
1,618,000
1,963,000
2,352,000
2,787,000
3,271,000
3,806,000
4,394,000
5,037,000
5,738,000
6,498,000
7,321,000
8,207,000
9,160,000
10,181,000
11,273,000
12,436,000
13,675,000
14,990,000
16,383,000
17,858,000
19,415,000
21,056,000
22,784,000
24,601,000
26,509,000
28,508,000
30,603,000

[Twelvefield]

That's sweet!

[76561198098007469]

Okay thanks i always have huge cities with giant populations so this is what i always wonder

[Matthew]

Are those the updated numbers? One of the patches messed with the numbers a bit, giving more population to larger cities. 30 mil for a size 40 city seems lower than what I remember seeing, but it has been a while since I've looked at the numbers. I had actually thought about playing a game later today, so maybe I will double check.

[The Rock God]

The thread I took them from was a while back, so things may have changed since then. I'm bored, so I'll fire up a game and check them.

Editing this as I play.

1 1,000
2 6,000
3 21,000
4 48,000
5 90,000
6 150,000
7 232,000
8 337,000
9 469,000
10 630,000
11 823,000
12 1,051,000
13 1,315,000
14 1,618,000
15 1,963,000
16 2,352,000
17 2,787,000
18 3,271,000
19 3,806,000
20 4,394,000
21 5,037,000
22 5,738,000
23 6,498,000
24 7,321,000
25 8,207,000
26 9,160,000
27 10,181,000
28 11,273,000
29 12,436,000
30 13,675,000
31 14,990,000
32 16,383,000
33 17,858,000
34 19,415,000
35 21,056,000
36 22,784,000
37 24,601,000
38 26,509,000
39 28,508,000
40 30,603,000
41 32,794,000
42 35,083,000
43 37,472,000
44 39,963,000
45 42,559,000
46 45,260,000
47 48,069,000
48 50,988,000
49 54,019,000
50 57,163,000
51 60,422,000
52 63,798,000
53 67,293,000
54 70,909,000
55 74,647,000
56 78,510,000
57 82,499,000
58 86,616,000
59 90,862,000
60 95,240,000
61 99,752,000
62 104,399,000
63 109,182,000
64 114,104,000

[Danny]

on the demographics I noticed it looks like it shows the city with the most population, not the population as a whole for the civ

[daniel]

A size 44 city has a bigger population than Canada... lol.

[Matthew]

The reason why I thought the numbers didn't look right was because the numbers in my mind were remembering some totals I did as an entire empire, not on a per-city basis. But, all that work you did, bu_chen, wasn't wasted because I was looking for these numbers just a little while ago and remembered you had posted them just recently.

So thanks--at a much later date in time--for posting those numbers.

[Damsteri]

Originally posted by Phantom Doge:

A size 44 city has a bigger population than Canada... lol.

Hah, it's funny when you compare real life population to civ v population.
What if population was counted in Civ V style?

Town where I was born - population only 1, but close to 2
City where I live now - population almost 6
Largest City in my native country, Helsinki - population 10 (or 13 if metropolitan area is counted)
My native country Finland - total population 21 if counted as a one city in Civ V

[Matthew]

It does follow rough averages pretty well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_urban_community_sizes

Discounting extreme outliers, like a few eastern Asia cities and such, of course.

A lot of countries fall into the 40-80 million range (again, ignoring outliers like India/China), which is about 4-8 size ~27 cities, which is about what you end up with in many games.

What isn't necessarily represented well in Civ is all those farm and mine tiles in between your cities supposedly have several smaller towns which add up the rest of your population. For example, Munich in real life only has ~1.4 mill people, but in game Munich represents the city plus say ~115km radius around that to represent that blob of Germany. Same with Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, etc.

After all, you aren't expected to spam 200+ size 3 cities :)