Demographics of the Wizarding World
Throughout human history the demographics of our societies has changed as we have developed. Today different societies are at different points along this demographic transition. For example developed nations like Japan and the UK, typically have a low birthrate and long life expectancy making children only a small proportion of the population, ( Read more... )
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I've often wondered how wizarding culture and customs are effected by their tiny population.
You've brought up a lot of things that I haven't considered before. I look forward to your thoughts about the lethal problems of the wizarding world.
But, I tend to be fairly elastic when considering the actual numbers. Rowlings herself was somewhat inconsistent about the subject. The main example is the 1000 student number that you cite, along with an interview where she says that the full student gathering in the Great Hall in the first movie was just as she always imagined it. Someone else did a guesstimate/count of the number of students in the movie that was in the low hundreds (under 500, but I can't remember more than that).
I'll be reading your future posts.
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