DESCRIPTION

This is a lightweight mod to affect some demographics, particularly Literacy and Fertility/birth-rate. Currently only for 1.06 but will update when 1.1 is out. The objectives are: 1) Better model demographic trends; the richest countries (Britain, France) are 'over the hump' the demographic shift by 1836, but many other nations are only just beginning to grow. Less dominance for France late game! 2) Create some tradeoffs between laws/institutions that will increase population size, and education 3) Reduce over-high literacy rates and make low literacy more of a challenge for backward nations. Changes: *Changes to Standard of Living impact on birth/death rates. PoP SoL equilibrium increased from 8 to 9 - those with SoL below 9 will shrink (unless there are other effects! which there are). SoL Delta Cap reduced from 20 to 13. Between 9 and 13, there is a dramatic increase in PoPs' growth rates. But this then declines from 13 upwards. The wealthiest countries now start with high population increases, but they are on the downward slope and will only see birth rates fall as SoL increases. While countries starting to intensivise agriculture and industrialise can see their POPs growth spike. *Tweaked "empty province" threshold impact on birthrate. Definition of 'empty province' raised from 5000 POPs/agricultural slot to 17500. Effect of "empty province" on birthrate increased. Gives e.g. Russia more of a birth rate bonus. *Healthcare System institution bonuses now affect BOTH birthrate and mortality. *Allowing Child Labour now increases birth rate not mortality (reflecting parents' incentives to have more children if they can earn money). This should really only apply to the lower class but there are only modifiers available across the board. Compulsory Primary School gives a bonus to Education Access. *Allowing Child Labour and poor levels of Women's Rights laws now reduce Education Access (Literacy). This effect is dynamic with the Education institution; even if you have very high Education institution, if children are still working and girls are expected to grow up as their husbands' property, your Literacy gains from Education will be much lower. *Standard of Living effect on Literacy is now reduced from 2 to 0.5 per point. *POPs have more Education Access bonus by POP type. Peasants gain 10% Literacy; Labourers, Farmers and Soldiers 15%; Shopkeepers 20%; Machinists 30%; Officers, Clerks, Bureaucrats 50%; Clergy, Engineers, Aristocrats 60%; Capitalists 80%; Academics 100%. *As a result, Literacy is much more limited in most countries; don't forget that Child Labour Allowed and Legal Guardianship give penalties, so a Peasant at SoL 10 with these laws has barely any literacy at all. This making Education investment (and removing harmful laws) more important for POP promotion. Promoting POPs also increases Literacy in its own right. However, educating your population comes at the expense of reducing your birthrate, which must be compensated for by increasing your healthcare institution! KNOWN BUG: Because the Education institution has effects, a bunch of countries start with it. I don't understand completely as I've set No Education law to give -5 Max Education Institution but evidently the game doesn't check the max valid institution level before creating it. I've amended the effects so that the impact at the start of the game is as intended, even where this occurs, and given everyone a Bureaucracy boost.

CHANGELOG

v3 - Released 2022-12-11

v2 - Released 2022-12-08

REQUIREMENTS

Victoria 3

Full game

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