[PaoloZ]

Is the text for the Growth/Death scale in the manual under the chapter on designing a pretender mistyped?

I have just taken a Death 1 scale, thinking it would only hamper my population growth.

The game states population growth is reduced by 0.2%.

But as the game goes on my popoluation keep dying even though by a slow rate...

It seems that it's not my population growth reduced: it is my pop being reduced!
Is the death scale an effective reduction of total population, not population growth?