Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-14359537-20130920151959

Do the math yourself if you don't believe me.

The average elf lifespan is 2900 years, while man can only live to about 70. Divide 2900 by 70 to confirm that an elf's range of age is 41 times a man's. For the sake of making it easy, lets round it to 40.

There are three men born per elf born, so there are three times the number of men than there are mer from the age of 1 to 70. To find the whole thalmor population in comparison to the Humans, however, we need to multiply 1 by 40, which is obviously 40. Oh, miscalculations. the ratio of population is actually only 40:3, which is 13 times man. and keep in mind, this is just the altmer. if i add the bosmer to this, It'll be a ridiculously overwhelming number. And this is if elves are fertile for the same amount of time as man. If they are fertile for the first half of their lives, like man, They will have a whopping population of 1657 times humans, and thats just the altmer. That's so huge, I'm pretty sure it's pretty crampt back at Summerset isles (^^)

Still think men outnumber elves?