i'm considering annexing china to keep my country from completely depopulating in 3 decades since they can't even supply their massive armies and i could probably roll right over them. 2 population as clergymen is used early on in the game to obtain higher. is there any way you can make sure natural growth can't go negative or add decisions like propaganda or something to increase pop growth? i can see the natalism decision but can't use it because i'm communist. In Victoria 2, Not sure if you noticed that when you click on a province. nobody is leaving the country and the iron curtain was lifted in the 50's, i get about 2000 immigration and have managed to be the top destination for most of europe to immigrate to, but i'm still massively in decline. how do i fix this? i have lost 30 million pop already, i went from 275m total to 249m total. i have 9 levels of educated society modifers and 4 levels of affluent society modifers, so my natural growth is negative. i have every social reform and 8 national focuses which i am all of to increase immigration. and then my population growth went down to -20k for the next decade and is still around that level. So, i'm playing as the soviet union, and right around the 1980's my education level hit 90%.

Victoria 2 increase population