Protoss population ?

[Visions of Khas]

The Protoss have undergone a diaspora. With the loss of Aiur as the focal point for the Khalai civilization, there are many colonies out there left unaccounted for. There are fanatics spread across the stars as well. Moreover, the Dark Templar are only now beginning to rally their forces. The Lanessa and Zeratai were represented on Shakuras, and more and more are coming out from the Void. Now, the Boros are bringing to bear their armadas.

An hypothesis of mine is that there are even more protoss spread across the stars than even the Protoss Protectorate (name of the new Khalai-Nezarim alliance/territories) knows of, seeded by the Xel'Naga.

There are no numbers, but the coming years may see many coming together -- or tearing themselves apart.

[Kacaier]

Actually Terrans Should be in the hundreds of millions, maybe a billion or so total... they were only in the tens of thousands when the first reached Koprulu... to get to billions would take several centuries... unless all terrans have large families and little problem surviving.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

I wish I could use all those population growth equations from the days of Environmental Science, but I am absolutely horrible with retention and relearning on my own basis. I need to be forced this stuff to be competent with it.

However, looking at the graphs via wikipedia, you can see that the world population jumped exponentially from the 1700s to 2000s. While that is indeed three centuries, much of the growth between the 1700s and 1900s was from the European nations and its descendants (US, Canada). It wasn't until the 1930s-40s that the whole world population jumped together.

A large misconception of why our population is so high is that people believe greater technology and the more ease of food allowed people to grow so fast. Unfortunately, that is not true. Humans have always had an extremely high population growth, with the exception of Europe and Japan of today. It is modern medicine and the ability to lower mortality rates in which we jumped. This has forced the doubling rate (the rate at which a population will double itself) below 100 years, less than a century.

The Koprulu Terrans have technology far greater than what we have today. There is no doubt that they can lower the mortality rate to a very minuscule number (despite murders and crime). You also must recall that Terrans there don't act like we do. They recreated the Confederacy and had "Old Families" much like in the antebellum South. These families had up to 10-12 children.

So, compound high birthrate with low doubling rate, and you'll get to a billion in no time. Though of course, I'm not sure it wholly adds up from Terran landing to post-Brood War, but it's somewhat plausible in my mind.

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[newcomplex]

Its not really debatable that the Terrans have billions of people, recent SC2 campaign footage showed a news report saying that the zerg attack had casualties in the billions.

The newer lore always take precedence over older lore. I think its safe to assume the Terran population numbers between 10 to 20 billion.

edit:

Was doing some math anyway, so I did some quick number crunching.


Roughly 275 hundred years ago, 40,000 terran were sent to the korprulu sector. Within the first 100 years, their would be a period of instability. Factoring in both the alien environment with the increased life expectancy, it would be logical that death rate is .8% or so, roughly what we have today, the hostile enviroment counterbalancing vastly improved med tech. Birth would be high, lets put the average at 5, something comparable to developing nations today. (it is higher, because the terran population can afford to sustain this rapid growth because of vastly improved tech and a planet of untapped resources). Lets assume five generations are created within the century, something else comparable to developing nations.

After a century, we get 125,000,000 people, factor in the death rate, and we get roughly 85 million left standing.

The next 175 years, the population should stabilize to say, 3 births, but the death rate would go down to say, .7%, kept up only because of wars, and 25 years per generation. All reasonable estimates.

That gives a whopping 65 billion people, and after factoring death rates, leaves us with 19 billion.

Factors that limit population size, like land available, and resources, are less problematic due to colonial expansion into several solar systems, terraforming, and tech like sustainable cold fusion.

Makes sense.

edit2: Yes, I know that most numbers I pulled are just estimates based on real world data, not blizzlore, all save the timeframe. A single +1/-1 in almost any field would alter the current population exponentially. But my numbers all make sense, and show that the terran population could be easily in the range of dozen+ billion. Even so, keeping the numbers with reasonable ranged, we could get populations between 5 billion ish up to 40-50 billion.

100,000 million...

makes no sense what so ever, unless infant mortality is ridiculously high. As in 50%+. And life expectancy was in the mid 40s. Which alone is just ridiculous.

[Norfindel]

I wonder what would happend when the news about Aiur and/or the return of the Xel'Naga reach that distant Protoss colonies...

[Kimera757]

Some of the colonies (like Ash'Arak) would probably retreat to Shakuras. The crazy ones, well, they probably know more than the protagonists...

[Alex06]

Zerg are probably in the 100 billions, TBH.
Terrans are in the billions, too.
In StarCraft 2, in the campaign, when Kerrigan starts invading, a reporter mentions that "casualties are in the billions". That's only at the start of the invasion, at the beginning of the game, and it doesn't look that bleak at all. So 4-5 billion perhaps out of 25-35 billion seems right.

With Aiur, perhaps the Protoss were in the 50 billion, how they're probably half of that or 2 thirds.

[Pandonetho]

lol in the UED Propaganda report it said Zerg casualities numbered in the millions but the counter went past a trillion. I always thought that was funny.

[Kacaier]

The Zerg don't really need a large standing army. They can be spawned at a moment's notice and swarm when they really need it. I would suspect that they'd have millions as scouts, patrols, etc., but can rapidly reinforce their numbers.

Otherwise, keeping billions of hyperevolved, hungry critters would literally drain all the resources way too fast. And I recall the manual stating each brood had around millions. Even if they don't go in the billions, I'm also betting they can maintain the stable number until the end.

[n00bonicPlague]

I'm confident that their numbers are over nine thousand.

Seriously, though — aren't the Protss spread across the galaxy or something?

[Kimera757]

The protoss controlled one eighth of the xel'naga worlds. No, they don't control that big a part of the galaxy.