QUOTE (MYST1C @ Jan 9 2009, 09:59 PM)
Well, here are the percentages from
Shadows of Europe:
CODE
Country Human Elf Ork Troll Dwarf Other
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Allied German States 70 4 7 8 10 1
Austria 70 5 12 2 10 1
Czech Republic 59 9 13 5 10 4
Denmark 62 8 8 11 10 1
Euskal Herria 67 2 10 6 15 0
Finland 60 11 8 8 10 3
France 60 18 15 2 4 1
Italian Confederation 78.5 4 11 2 4 0.5
Norway 58 12 6 10 11 3
Poland 74 3 11 3 8 1
Portugal 74.5 5 12 5 3 0.5
Spain 78 10 5 4 2 1
Sweden 67 14 5 6 8 1
Switzerland 86 5 4 1 3 1
Tír na nÓg 42 46 5 2 4 1
United Kingdom 66 11 14 3 5 1
United Netherlands 72 9 10 2 6 1
Thanks a lot for that, but unfortunately, i don't think these numbers would be used anymore in the current setting.
SR4 seems to have made a massive retcon of demographics.
AFAIK, in every sprawl detailed so far in SR4, we see an ork population somewhere around 20%.
RC describes them as the second most common metatype after baseline humans (which makes more sense than the SR3 numbers IMHO, given their abnormally high birth rates).
Elves rank second, with seemingly a little less than 10% worldwide (they are also said to express frequently in any population, even the most isolated ones), with dwarves being a little rarer.
Trolls are the most seldom encountered metatype, even not appearing at all in some ethnicities.
On average, the numbers seem to indicate that we are looking at around 64% humans (this number is confirmed in RC), 20% orks, 9% elves, 5% dwarves, 2 percent trolls and 1% other sapients.
I'd guess that these 1% are mostly ghouls and to a lesser extend other Infected, given how low the numbers for nonmetahuman sapients in RC are.
According to (ingame) statistics, there's probably less than a million nonmetahuman sapients around, most of them being shapeshifters and AI, so unless there's a large number of yet undescribed other sentient species, Infected would have to make up for almost all of the 1% others.