We are currently studying about population in Geography. So I decided to try to apply it to Equestria to see how its demography is, where it is on the Demographic Transition Model etc.
Firstly, Equestria seems to have low death rate and good healthcare. I would say this was not always the case considering there were a few disease outbreaks in the past like cutie pox.
Disease are low relatively and Death rate appears to be low
However, it also does not seem to have a very high birth rate also. By some approximation, I would say that the fertility rate in Equestria is about 2.
Small family size and low birth rate.
Equestria also seems to have a young population with neither too many fillies/foals nor too many elders.
I would say Equestria is in stage 4 of the Demographic Transition Model and puts it alongside USA, Canada, Australia etc.
What do you think about demographics in Equestria? Because if there is one model which can show a societies progress, it is demographics and the DTM (everything from healthcare, gender equality, economic progress, education etc.)