Lore:Demographics
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[edit] By Game
Note that these figures do not include nameless NPCs, such as guards, bandits, etc. The Imperial population in both games and the Dunmer population in Morrowind would be significantly higher if these were included. More detailed game-specific demographics can be found at Morrowind:Demographics and Oblivion:Demographics.
| Race | Redguard | Morrowind | Tribunal | Bloodmoon | Oblivion | Shivering Isles |
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | |
| Altmer | 1 | 4% | 94 | 4% | 4 | 3% | 1 | 1% | 60 | 7% | 6 | 7% | 166 | 4% |
| Argonian | 1 | 4% | 126 | 5% | 2 | 2% | 6 | 5% | 57 | 7% | 8 | 9% | 200 | 5% |
| Bosmer | 2 | 8% | 117 | 4% | 6 | 5% | 2 | 2% | 70 | 8% | 15 | 15% | 212 | 5% |
| Breton | 1 | 4% | 102 | 4% | 10 | 8% | 4 | 3% | 115 | 13% | 9 | 10% | 241 | 6% |
| Dunmer | 1 | 4% | 1476 | 55% | 76 | 60% | 14 | 13% | 84 | 10% | 11 | 12% | 1662 | 42% |
| Imperial | 5 | 20% | 201 | 8% | 10 | 8% | 26 | 23% | 207 | 25% | 12 | 13% | 461 | 12% |
| Khajiit | 1 | 4% | 117 | 4% | 5 | 4% | 2 | 2% | 55 | 6% | 10 | 11% | 190 | 5% |
| Nord | 2 | 8% | 163 | 6% | 5 | 4% | 53 | 46% | 85 | 10% | 8 | 9% | 388 | 10% |
| Orc | 0 | 0% | 166 | 6% | 2 | 2% | 2 | 2% | 51 | 6% | 6 | 7% | 227 | 6% |
| Redguard | 11 | 44% | 113 | 4% | 5 | 4% | 4 | 3% | 71 | 8% | 6 | 7% | 210 | 5% |
| Total | 25 | - | 2675 | - | 125 | - | 114 | - | 855 | - | 91 | - | 3885 | - |
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[edit] By Region
This is an attempt to determine a relative racial demography of the entire continent of Tamriel. It is by its nature flawed, as it relies on a great deal of conjecture due to the lack of information in many cases. The methods for calculating this are as follows:
- The area of each of Tamriel's provinces was first determined, to calculate roughly how the population is split among them. This of course assumes that all of Tamriel's population is equally dense in every province. This is one potential factor for error.
- When available, actual game data was used to determine the relative population-breakdowns of the provinces. It was assumed that the number of people you can meet in each game is only a representative sampling of the total number of people living in the province. Thus, while there are over three times as many people in Morrowind as there are in Oblivion, the actual populations of Morrowind and Cyrodiil are guessed to be much closer in number, based on relative area.
- When no game data was available, other sources were used. The following is a list of the sources used for each of the provinces:
- Black Marsh - The Argonian Account
- Cyrodiil - Game data from Oblivion
- Elsweyr - No data available
- Hammerfell - Game data from Redguard (The population of Stros M'Kai was assumed to be representative of Hammerfell.)
- High Rock - No data available
- Morrowind - Game data from Morrowind
- Skyrim - Game data from Bloodmoon (The population of Solstheim was assumed to be representative of Skyrim.)
- Summerset Isles - No data available
- Valenwood - A Dance in Fire
- In the cases where no data was available, fake numbers were entered. The way these were determined was by sheer guesswork - that the represntative race would account for approximately 55% of the population (which is close to correct in the known cases), and that the remaining 45% was divided evenly among the other races. This is another major leap of assumption, but lacking other sources of data, it was deemed justifiable.
- Caveats
- Orcs are likely under-represented. No data exists for Orsinium, which is a region of the Wrothgarian Mountains in High Rock. Additionally, in the earlier games, Orcs were treated as enemy creatures, not a playable race. This makes comparing their numbers considerably more difficult.
- Imperials are also under-represented. Both Morrowind and Oblivion had a substantial Imperial population in the form of unnamed guards, which were omitted from the count. Also, it's likely that the Imperial population in the provinces without data is higher than reported, since Imperials rule Tamriel.
- Dunmer may be over-represented. The Morrowind game only covers the area of Vvardenfell, not the Morrowind mainland, which would likely have more foreigners living there.
- No data from Arena, Daggerfall, or Battlespire or any of the mobile games was available. How much these would skew the count is unknown.
- Data for the Black Marsh and Valenwood was extracted from the reading of books, guessing the total population based on the number of each race encountered in the story. This is by no means accurate, but without any other information, these were the best source available.
| Region | Area | Altmer | Argonian | Bosmer | Breton | Dunmer | Imperial | Khajiit | Nord | Orc | Redguard |
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| Black Marsh | 10% | 61% | 6% | 31% | 2% | ||||||
| Cyrodiil | 19% | 7% | 7% | 8% | 13% | 10% | 25% | 6% | 10% | 6% | 8% |
| Elsweyr | 6% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 55% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
| Hammerfell | 13% | 4% | 4% | 8% | 4% | 4% | 20% | 4% | 8% | 44% | |
| High Rock | 6% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 55% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
| Morrowind | 20% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 55% | 8% | 4% | 6% | 6% | 4% |
| Skyrim | 12% | 1% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 13% | 23% | 2% | 46% | 2% | 3% |
| Summerset Isles | 7% | 55% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
| Valenwood | 7% | 56% | 3% | 15% | 16% | 1% | 10% | ||||
| TOTAL | 7% | 11% | 8% | 8% | 16% | 18% | 8% | 11% | 4% | 9% |
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