How to maintain reproduction

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I have created a city with everything fine. more than 12k food left, enough firewood etc. and health and happiness at 5.

The problem is my population. I have around 10 stone houses and had a population of 40 citizens. But after some time, most of them died at old age, leaving most of the houses free. Butt the other ones are already 50 years old and do not reproduce anymore.

I have two families of younger people with children and i thought, that will save me, as they could survive for eternity. But both households have split up with mother-daughter and father-son occupying two houses and not producing any new child's…

what can i do to maintain a steady reproduction with an equally distributed demographic population and do you know how to get there from my situation?

Best Answer

In my last builded town, I started by creating 1 stone house every year. Not more!
This helps to avoid the overaging.
If you build too many houses in a very short timespan, there is big risk that citizens will die in the future also in a very short time (citizens with age around 80).