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==Demographics==
[[File:Fortuna group chart.png|200px|thumbnail|left|Species and ethnic groups in Fortuna according to 2020 statistics. Blue - human, green - vulpine, red - ailurine.]]
According to an April 2020 estimate, the population of the Second Fortunan Empire is calculated to be 47,045,328. Due to the difficult geography of the Aspirian Isles, a majority of the population is concentrated along the coast and centered within densely populated urban areas. Fortuna has a population density of 345.34 per square kilometer (894.4 mi/2) with over 25 million residing within the five most populated cities. The population has an estimated growth rate of 1.4% and a fertility rate of just over 2 children born per woman.
Beginning in the 1980s and into the early 2000s, Fortuna introduced policies and programs to encourage large families to replace the population lost during the Toscanan-Emilian War and the Purification Period. As concerns around overpopulation arose in the early years of the current regime, family planning policies were introduced as an attempt to slow the nation’s growth such as promoting a limit of two children per family and providing contraceptives to urban areas. The high population density of the Fortunan Archipelago has also been used by the regime as a justification for their recent expansion into the rest of the Aspirian Isles. Many of these family planning policies were later removed as Fortuna ramped up land reclamation and later with the annexation of the less densely populated island of Eridani Theta. Over 100,000 Fortunans have been settled in Eridani Theta by 2020, mostly consisting of ailurines and vulpines.
Officially, Fortuna only has three sapient species with humans making up the majority of the population, consisting of around 38,802,663 individuals, or 82.48% of the population. Vulpines and ailurines are the only other sapient species with vulpines making up 10.29% of the population, or around 4,840,329 individuals, and ailurines, making up 7.23% of the population, or around 3,402,336 individuals. A notable number of felines and nekomimi once resided within the Fortunan Archipelago by the early 20th century, however, there are no records of either species on the isles after 1980. There does still consist of a rather diverse number of ethnic groups among the three species groups.
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