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>Like I personally had feels something was off with population numbers for a while, but never really thought much on it. But you have tons of folks saying they hardly see enough people to say the population count is anywhere near correct.

There's a theory that people are being removed from the planet like the Christian "Rapture" but instead of everybody noticing, reality is being warped and twisted "on the fly" to make it seem like these people NEVER EXISTED.
When it was just a few per year it was easy to hide, but now, millions of people are "rapturing" each year and the effort needed to remake everybody's memories AND (re)move buildings is straining the system's abilities.
Just a theory.

Somewhat like that movie "Dark City"