def reproduce(fertilityx, fertilityy, infantMortality): for person in peopleDictionary: if person.gender ==

Last but not least, we’ll add in our disasterChance. I feel like the 25% initial infant mortality rate will be a bit unreasonable for this simulation, so I’m setting it to 5%, and then we’re ready to add in disasterChance, right above where we print out the population:

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Next, we cycle through the people dictionary and remove anyone who is over 80. The rest of the population increases by 1 year of age. If you wanted to improve the simulator, you could make it more random which age you die at.

def runYear(food, agriculture, fertilityx, fertilityy): harvest(food, agriculture) reproduce(fertilityx, fertilityy) for person in peopleDictionary: if person.age > 80: peopleDictionary.remove(person) else: person.age =1

This looks just like our graph from the simple first program of the article. It makes sense based on the current code, but it’s not very interesting. Let’s spice it up a little.

Note: You’ll also want to update the runYear function, and also the line where we call it, so it can accept the infantMortality variable. Otherwise, you will get the error “infantMortality is not defined”.

Fantastic, we have our very basic functions laid out. Although this could be done more simply using maths, setting our code out as an object-based script allows for more flexibility; if you wanted to expand the program and make it more realistic, you could add various characteristics to each person, such as medical conditions or social class.

Once again, you’ll want to update the line where we call the runYears function so it sends the disasterChance to the function. Those are all the remaining changes and updates you must make to finish the simple population simulator!

It’s complete! You can see that about every ten years, there is some kind of significant disaster that kills 5–20% of the population. These disasters are barely noticeable for the first seven hundred years, but they get very exaggerated thereafter.

Let’s see what is going on here. The runYear function takes agriculture, food, fertilityx and fertilityy. It runs the harvest function to find out if the food will leave some people to starve to death, or if there is enough to be stored. We then perform the reproduce function, so that 20% of women between 18–35 give birth to a baby.

This is also really simple. We’re decreasing the infantMortality by 1.5% every year, and returning it so the updated mortality rate can be put into the function for the subsequent year.

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This is a rather long clause, but I’ll try to explain it. If the random number between 0 and 100 falls within the disasterChance range (for us, that is 10%), then a disaster is initiated. We generate a random number to figure out how much damage we’ll do. It’ll fall between 5% and 20%. We’ll multiply this by the length of the people dictionary to get a 5–20% slice of the population. We’ll then cut that slice out (effectively killing 5–20% of our population).

As you can see, instead of giving each woman a 1 in 5 chance of giving birth, even if she does give birth, there is a 25% chance of the baby dying. You can see from our random clause that any random numbers generated between 0–100 that are below 25% = baby dies, any above = baby lives. If infantMortality is high, then very few of the infants will survive. Ideally, you want to get it down from 1% to 2%.

After starting the program and creating these people, we need a system to cycle through each year, and perform the harvest and reproduce functions. We’ll call this function runYear: