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EU5: Advanced Guide to Rapidly Increasing Your Population
This video provides a detailed guide on how to maximize population growth and capacity in Europa Universalis V (EU5). It covers various factors that influence population growth, including prosperity, settlement type, availability of free land, food prices, food storage, negative modifiers, advances, buildings, terrain traits, climate, urbanization, development, and cabinet actions.
1. 📈 Importance of Population Growth in EU5
- ✅ Population growth is crucial in EU5, affecting prosperity, the economy, and military capability.
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1. 📈 Importance of Population Growth in EU5
- ✅ Population growth is crucial in EU5, affecting prosperity, the economy, and military capability.
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2. 💰 Prosperity and its Impact on Population Growth
- ✅ Every 5% of prosperity in a province increases population growth by 0.01%.
- ⚠️ Negative prosperity decreases population growth.
- ✅ 100% prosperity grants a +0.2% bonus to population growth.
- ⚠️ -100% prosperity results in a -0.5% penalty to population growth.
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3. ⏳ Compound Growth and the Black Death
- ✅ Population growth bonuses accumulate exponentially.
- ⚠️ The Black Death can significantly reduce the population, so mitigating its effects is crucial.
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4. 🏘️ Rural Settlements and their Growth Bonus
- ✅ Rural settlements grant a +0.1% annual bonus to population growth.
- ⚠️ This bonus does not apply to cities or towns.
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5. 🏞️ Availability of Free Land and its Influence
- ✅ The availability of free land, i.e., the difference between the current population and the population capacity, influences growth.
- ✅ A large difference can grant a bonus of up to +1% to population growth.
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6. 🍎 Food Prices and Storage: Growth Bonuses
- ✅ A low food price (0.01) grants a +0.07% bonus to annual population growth.
- ✅ A large food storage in the province can give a boost of up to +0.3% to growth, depending on how many months of food consumption are stored (up to 120 months = 10 years).
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7. 🌾 How to Check Food Storage and Obtain Bonuses
- ✅ To check food storage, hover over the provincial food in the upper right corner.
- ✅ Building granaries is a quick way to increase food storage.
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8. ⚠️ Negative Modifiers Affecting Population Growth
- ⚠️ Starvation reduces population growth by -2.5% annually.
- ⚠️ Looting reduces growth by -0.5%.
- ⚠️ War exhaustion reduces growth by -0.03% per point (up to a maximum of 20 points, resulting in -0.6%).
- ⚠️ Negative prosperity can reduce growth by up to -0.5%.
- ⚠️ The combination of these factors can result in a significant decrease in population.
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9. 📜 Geographical and National Advances
- ✅ Some geographical and country-specific advances can increase population growth.
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10. 🏗️ Buildings that Boost Population Growth
- ✅ Settlements can give a large boost of 1% to population growth, but require the province to have less than 5% of its population capacity occupied.
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11. 🌍 Terrain and Climate Traits: Base Factors of Population Capacity
- ✅ Terrain influences population capacity: farmland gives a boost of 100,000, while forests give 50,000 and desert only 10,000.
- ✅ Climate is also important: the Mediterranean climate gives a boost of 150%, while arid climates give none.
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12. 🏙️ Urbanization and Development: Increasing Population Capacity
- ✅ Urbanization is crucial: rural locations give no bonuses to population capacity, while cities give a large boost.
- ✅ Development is very important, as it increases population capacity, food production, and migration attraction.
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13. 📈 Provincial Development: Key to Long-Term Growth
- ✅ Provincial development is fundamental to increasing population capacity, food production, and migration attraction.
- ✅ Paradox recommends prioritizing development if there are no urgent matters.
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14. 🌊 Additional Bonuses: Coasts, Traditional Economy, and Food Production
- ✅ Coastal provinces have a 25% bonus to population capacity.
- ✅ A traditional economy as a social value significantly increases population capacity and food production.
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15. 🚫 Avoiding Overpopulation and its Negative Consequences
- ⚠️ It is important not to exceed the population capacity, as this carries significant disadvantages, such as reduced migration attraction and population growth, as well as negative events.
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16. 🛠️ Cabinet Actions: Encouraging Migration and Expelling Populations
- ✅ Using cabinet actions such as encouraging migration is beneficial for increasing the population.
- ✅ People can be tactically expelled from low-reward provinces to productive provinces to boost the economy.
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17. 👑 National Bonuses: The Example of the Kingdom of Sweden
- ✅ Some nations have incredible bonuses for population growth.
- ✅ The Kingdom of Sweden has "Support new farms in the northeast", which grants a large bonus to migration attraction, local monthly development, and annual population growth.
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18. 📊 Parliamentary Censuses: Temporary Boost to Growth
- ✅ Including a census in parliament grants a 0.5% boost to population growth for 6 months.
- ✅ If completed successfully, it also grants seven of stability.
- ✅ Sometimes, it is beneficial to simply take the population boost and let the bill fail, although this results in a loss of stability.