Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-50.72.53.15-20131125223904/@comment-147.69.130.106-20170625034646

Box Jellyfish wrote: I can't imagine that it's alot of people. Real world comparisons don't work for me, since generally there are entirely different rules governing this universe. I think it would be safe to say there are around 20-30 Million people living in Tamriel. I figure that based off of a few things, such as the production of farms that we've seen, of game, and how the populations tend to cluster around urban centers and to not spread out very far in great number.

We also don't see every single person everywhere though, so I would assume that there's a sizable number of people outside of the cities either in small hamlets or towns, or living on their own near major urban centers. This also doesn't count military outside of the region they're alligned with, bandits, etc. True, in-game population density reflects a least dense population. It doesn't matter how small the maps & cities are, density is determined by how many 'people' - NPCs are within that area. The population of Tamriel would resemble an island continent like Australia because they both share a common geographic boundary, the sea. Unlike, Europe which is apart of Eurasia, or Canada which is part of North America, Australia is a true island continent and so is Tamriel. Tamriel's population would rival that of Australia's, if it truly is '12 million sq kms' against Australia's, 7.7 million sq kms, 98% of Australians live in just 20% of Australia's landmass, similarly, large proportions of Tamriel's population appears to reside in the cities. (I am Australian and the estimate result of 23,871,000, that closely resemble's, Australia's population was an unintentional occurrence but my experience in a low density country helped me determine a medieval population for Tamriel)