Real life population to Civ

[vodlaian]

For fun, I decided to calculate what real life cities would be in civ using the math from the SDK (hopefully I am correct ):

Tokyo:42 (entire Canada would be pop 41)
Mexico City: 33
New York: 33
São Paulo: 33
Mumbai: 33
Delhi: 31
Shanghai: 30
Buenos Aires: 29
Karachi: 28
Los Angeles: 28
Rio de Janeiro: 28
Beijing: 27
Moscow: 27
Paris: 26
Chicago: 25
London: 25
Hong Kong: 23
Bangkok: 23
Lahore: 22
Miami: 21
Madrid: 21
Philadelphia: 21
Toronto: 21
Barcelona: 20
Boston: 19
Sydney: 19
Singapore: 19
Houston: 19
Atlanta: 19
Washington: 19
Detroit: 19
Montreal: 18
Monterrey: 18
Berlin: 18
San Fransisco: 18
Rome: 18
Edinburgh: 8

All of America: 90
If every member in this forum joined up into a city, it would be pop 5
If you have 30 pop and lose 1, that's the equivalent of losing over a million people!

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population

May add more later


Edit: Here is a requested list:

Pop 1: 1000
Pop 2: 6964
Pop 3: 21674
Pop 4: 48503
Pop 5: 90597
Pop 6: 150947
Pop 7: 232421
Pop 8: 337794
Pop 9: 469763
Pop 10: 630957
Pop 11: 823947
Pop 12: 1051253
Pop 13: 1315350
Pop 14: 1618671
Pop 15: 1963611
Pop 16: 2352534
Pop 17: 2787770
Pop 18: 3271621
Pop 19: 3806361
Pop 20: 4394242
Pop 21: 5037487
Pop 22: 5738303
Pop 23: 6498871
Pop 24: 7321354
Pop 25: 8207898
Pop 26: 9160629
Pop 27: 10181657
Pop 28: 11273075
Pop 29: 12436963
Pop 30: 13675381
Pop 31: 14990381
Pop 32: 16383997
Pop 33: 17858252
Pop 34: 19415156
Pop 35: 21056707
Pop 36: 22784889
Pop 37: 24601680
Pop 38: 26509039
Pop 39: 28508924
Pop 40: 30603275
Pop 41: 32794023
Pop 42: 35083098
Pop 43: 37472406
Pop 44: 39963859
Pop 45: 42559348
Pop 46: 45260762
Pop 47: 48069977
Pop 48: 50988871
Pop 49: 54019301
Pop 50: 57163121
Pop 51: 60422184
Pop 52: 63798324
Pop 53: 67293383
Pop 54: 70909180
Pop 55: 74647531
Pop 56: 78510258
Pop 57: 82499156
Pop 58: 86616031
Pop 59: 90862680
Pop 60: 95240883

 

[frob2900]

For fun, I decided to calculate what real life cities would be in civ using the math from the SDK (hopefully I am correct ):

Tokyo:42

I knew Firaxis was correct in making Sids Sushi add so much food to a city!

 

[vodlaian]

I knew Firaxis was correct in making Sids Sushi add so much food to a city!

BTW: If the entire population of America was put into a city, it would be size 90.

 

[RedRalph]

Good stuff dude... but you have way too much time on your hands ;-)

 

[Yzman]

I always thought these numbers would be higher. It always seems that when they tell me what size my empire is its such a small number, at least most of the game.

 

[Soneji]

Do edinburgh plz! lol

 

[Fire.Soul]

I knew Firaxis was correct in making Sids Sushi add so much food to a city!

So true...

 

[vodlaian]

Do edinburgh plz! lol

Edinburgh is pop 8

 

[Tlalynet]

Whats with the food=pop thing? Ive live in a place that harvests massive amounts of food with a tiny tiny population, wearas huge cities are in deserts (Which in reality DO produce food but nothing like where I live.)

 

[Sultan Al-Malik]

hey what would the pop be of Karachi and Lahore?

 

[Soneji]

Edinburgh is pop 8

lol pop 8?

That it? My god, I've had larger come 1AD!

 

[vodlaian]

hey what would the pop be of Karachi and Lahore?

Karachi = pop 28
Lahore = pop 22

 

[18lama]

What would be the population of my home city...say with a population of ~5.1 million? or #49 on the Wikipedia list?

 

[vodlaian]

What would be the population of my home city...say with a population of ~5.1 million? or #49 on the Wikipedia list?

Hello, your home city would be pop 21 if my calculations are correct.*

 

[RedRalph]

Does anyone else think national populations in Civ are a bit too low? I've never had more than 100m citizens announce, even when I control 60% of the world (on huge)... which is only slightly above the pop. of Germany...

 

[vodlaian]

Does anyone else think national populations in Civ are a bit too low? I've never had more than 100m citizens announce, even when I control 60% of the world (on huge)... which is only slightly above the pop. of Germany...

For the population of earth, you would need almost 500 pop 30 cities (if my math is correct)

I personally think that towns should add to the population of a city, just in the stats though, not the pop number. Perhaps, the equivelent of 1 pop? (1000 people)

Here is the current math: (pop^2.8)*1000
My suggestion: ((pop+towns)^2.8)*1000

 

[marioflag]

Does anyone else think national populations in Civ are a bit too low? I've never had more than 100m citizens announce, even when I control 60% of the world (on huge)... which is only slightly above the pop. of Germany...

It's because in civ4 only the city population is accounted.You don't have population for villages and so on.Probably the game cant simulate China's urban population, but i'm sure that most of the countries don't have an urban population over 100 million.

 

[RedRalph]

Do town count toward population?

 

[marioflag]

Vodlaian could you post the corresponding city population per city number like:
1 city pop =10000 people
2 city pop = 50000
and so on

 

[marioflag]

Do town count toward population?

no it doesn't count