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To Understand History, Keep Former Population Distributions In Mind — LessWrong

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Guillaume Blanc has a piece in Works in Progress (I assume based on his paper) about how France’s fertility declined earlier than in other European countries, and how its power waned as its relative population declined starting in the 18th century. In 1700, France had 20% of Europe’s population (4% of the whole world population). Kissinger writes in Diplomacy with respect to the Versailles Peace Conference: Victory brought home to France the stark realization that revanche had cost it too dearly, and that it had been living off capital for nearly a century. France alone knew just how weak it had become in comparison with Germany, though nobody else, especially not America, was prepared to believe it ... Though France's allies insisted that its fears were exaggerated, French leaders knew better. In 1880, the French had represented 15.7 percent of Europe's population. By 1900, that figure had declined to 9.7 percent. In 1920, France had a population of 41 million and Germany a population

x To Understand History, Keep Former Population Distributions In Mind — LessWrong History World Modeling Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 14 % 254 To Understand History, Keep Former Population Distributions In Mind by Arjun Panickssery 23rd Apr 2025 2 min read 13 254 This is a linkpost for https://arjunpanickssery.substack.com/p/to-understand-history-keep-former Guillaume Blanc has a piece in Works in Progress (I assume based on his paper ) about how France’s fertility declined earlier than in other European countries, and how its power waned as its relative population declined starting in the 18th c

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