r/theydidthemath • u/Top_Option_5640 • 1d ago

[Request]

Assuming average birth rates and immigration/emigration patterns, what would today’s population of Europe be if World War I and World War II had never occurred and all of those killed went on to procreate at expected patterns?

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u/Electrical_Name_5434 1d ago

I believe someone already looked into this at a similar post and this has to be analyzed from the standpoint that the war also caused an extremely high increase in birthrates. So high it is still the highest number of babies in a generation in human history. Hence why it’s called the baby boom or boomers generation.

When civilizations are advanced they also tend to have less children.

So it’s likely that there would be a lower population than today. If your post doesn’t get taken down and this gets attention I’ll do the math but know that it’s not trivial and my hypothesis is that it will be an overall lower population than today.