What are the benefits of a growing population?

[Weson102]

What are the benefits of a growing population?

Is there a way to increase the importance of a larger population by adjusting some data files?

Everyone has their opinion as to what they would like to improve or enhance, mine are improved politics and a better intelligence
interface.

[Jubala]

The larger the population the higher construction rate and production from facilities you'll get. It can be edited in settings.txt and these are the default values:

Number Of Population Modifiers := 12
Pop Modifier 1 Population Amount := 99
Pop Modifier 1 Production Modifier Percent := 100
Pop Modifier 1 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 100
Pop Modifier 2 Population Amount := 499
Pop Modifier 2 Production Modifier Percent := 105
Pop Modifier 2 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 105
Pop Modifier 3 Population Amount := 999
Pop Modifier 3 Production Modifier Percent := 110
Pop Modifier 3 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 110
Pop Modifier 4 Population Amount := 1999
Pop Modifier 4 Production Modifier Percent := 120
Pop Modifier 4 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 120
Pop Modifier 5 Population Amount := 2999
Pop Modifier 5 Production Modifier Percent := 130
Pop Modifier 5 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 130
Pop Modifier 6 Population Amount := 3999
Pop Modifier 6 Production Modifier Percent := 140
Pop Modifier 6 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 140
Pop Modifier 7 Population Amount := 4999
Pop Modifier 7 Production Modifier Percent := 150
Pop Modifier 7 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 150
Pop Modifier 8 Population Amount := 5999
Pop Modifier 8 Production Modifier Percent := 160
Pop Modifier 8 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 160
Pop Modifier 9 Population Amount := 6999
Pop Modifier 9 Production Modifier Percent := 170
Pop Modifier 9 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 170
Pop Modifier 10 Population Amount := 7999
Pop Modifier 10 Production Modifier Percent := 180
Pop Modifier 10 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 180
Pop Modifier 11 Population Amount := 9999
Pop Modifier 11 Production Modifier Percent := 190
Pop Modifier 11 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 190
Pop Modifier 12 Population Amount := 2000000
Pop Modifier 12 Production Modifier Percent := 200
Pop Modifier 12 SY Rate Modifier Percent := 200