Population Question`

[Agrajag]

Twan said:
Say you control a farmland province which has lost much of its population. The 1k remaining people have lots of rich lands to exploit, logically their number should grow fast.

Well, maybe their birth rate will increase, but bear in mind that babies are not productive at all, they don't work at the farms to generate supply, nor do they pay taxes, and they take many years to grow to be productive :O