Talk:Grounders/@comment-24670104-20160507184528

It's time for another edition of Legendary Calculations  (that's what I'm now calling these comments I upload with a lot of calculations about distances and populations and kill counts etc) :

This one is about the average and approximate population of the 12 Clans.

So I read somewhere (it may have been a Rothenberg tweet) a while ago that said that the Nuclear Apocalypse killed 99.99999% of the human population. And it is predicted that in 2050 (not long before the Nuclear Apocalypse), the population will be at about 11 billion people (let's say it's exactly 10 billion just to make the calculations easier). So if 0.00001% of the population survived the Nuclear Apocalypse, that means that there were only 10,000 survivors worldwide!

If we assume that the male:female ratio of Generation 1 is 50:50, and everybody only had children with 1 person and they had an average of 4 children per family (twice the average before the Nuclear Apocalypse as they wanted more people in the world. So that means that G1 and G2 had 25,000 people total, and if they each had 4 children per family too and the male:female ratio was also 50:50, that means that there is 62,500 people worldwide.

Now let's get rid of 25% who are killed from radiation poisoning, bringing the total down to 46,875.

Now we'll get rid of a further 40% who are killed by natural causes, murder, and conflict, bring the total down to 18,750.

Next, we'll be assuming that those 18,750 people are only in Eastern North America, or The Coalition Territories, and the rest of the world has a population of 0. And the 18,750 are spread out evenly across the 12 Clans, meaning that each Clan has 1,562

And there we have it, my best estimation (haha, bestimation) for the population of each clan is 1,562. In a previous edition to Legendary Calculations, I worked out that the population of Arkadia is 337, meaning that Skaikru is 4.6 times smaller than the rest of the Clans.

Let me know what you think below.