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According to a April 2020 estimate, there is a population of 46,448,678 people within the Second Fortunan Empire. This results in Fortuna having a population density of 344.37 km/2 (885.8 mi/2). The distribution of the population is mainly around large urban centers such as Destino and Imperial Fortunan City, with over 25 million within the five most populated cities. Due to the difficult geography of the Aspirian Isles, much of the population can be found along the coast with very few large cities found inland with the exception of Equilara in Eridani Theta.
The population has been in a slow ascent until the early 1900s when immigration increased drastically as the archipelago was going through heavy industrialization. Immigration would slowly decline to a near halt in the late 1960s and into the 1970s due to the Toscanan-Emilian War. Population growth would again rise in the 1980s and 1990s as the states pushed for large families. This resulted in the Fortunan Archipelago specifically to end up with a high population density which has become one of the regime's justifications for the Empire's recent expansions. Fortuna consists of very little variance of sapient species present on the islands. Humans is the most dominant sapient species, consisting of around
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