Low-Tech Kingdom Population Density?

[Terwin]

Originally Posted by tjbuege

Since this is fantasy, I would think if it's your own world/creation, you could have whatever population density you want. I've used the online medieval demographics site, and I think it's great for getting in the ball park for earth-like conditions. But I'm sure there are worlds out there that break all the rules. Just some up with some reason why a really high population density can support itself. Unless, of course, you are looking for earth-like realism. If that's the case, disregard what I just said, go with what everyone else is saying! :)

Tim

Especially using magic.

Just the double-harvest from Bless crops could radically change your population ratio.
Instead of each farmer feeding roughly 1.25 people, you can now feed ~2.5 people/farmer and you have gone from 80% farmers to 40% farmers.

Taking the 250K specialists/townsfolk from Rust above, you now only need ~170K farmers instead of 1 million farmers, thus putting you inside your 700K target population.

This also happens to coincide well with towns/cities being relatively close together as depicted in many fantasy settings.