Talk:The Grounders (Earth)/@comment-26247132-20150701193738/@comment-26269248-20150708233702

LightStone123: Just to clarify, I am just a college student and I only took 1 class on the subject so I am not an expert on human growth patterns, but as I said this is an educated guess to be 8,000 survivors of the apocalypse and 11,000-13,000 descendants alive 97 years later. The .000001% is an incredibly low number for any apocalyptic scenario even if you didn’t know what the number was equal to. My only guess is that considering over 40 countries today have either nuclear weapons or access to nuclear energy (and assuming that this number grew by 2052), with what little has been foreshadowed about ALIE, she launched all the missiles/created meltdowns that killed off almost all of the world’s population. And in the aftermath, war, disease, famine, and lack of authority would lunge the world further into chaos until decades later when society began anew, which could be years before any1 on this show was born thus leading to very little growth in the population on the planet. Like I said before, this is all guessing, math that is hard to bye, and fan theories that might be proven false, but this is (as of now anyway) the best answer that there could be to explain how/why the population of the Earth as it is now.