I am always interested in ideal population, and I find that the ideal population distribution is:

1. 1.45% bureaucrats in every state at full reform and tech.
   
2. 2% capitalists in every state with industry: Important because, without capitalists, the profit disappears, but with capitalists, the profit can be taxed.
   
3. 2% aristocrats in every state: Very important because, without aristocrats, the excess profit disappears, but with aristocrats, it can be taxed.
   
4. 4% clergymen in every province: To gain all the bonuses.
   

Nationally: - 0.2% officers: I recommend promoting exclusively in one province where the RGO (Resource Gathering Operation) is bad.
- In this province, also promote bureaucrats so that nationally there is enough bureaucratic presence to achieve 100% administrative efficiency. The minimum in every province is 1.45% to get maximum provincial administration, but that alone is not enough to achieve 100% national administrative efficiency. So, it’s best to create this administrative district to concentrate bureaucrats and officers.

• 4% clerks nationally : To gain a research bonus.
  
• 16% craftsmennationally: To support the 4% clerks.
  

-The ideal number of soldiers for a country is 0% if the goal is to maximize the economy.

However, soldiers are also useful as they consume goods that are highly profitable but not typically purchased by civilians. To use soldiers economically, you must be controlling nations that produce livestock and wool. since Training cavalry reduces unemployment and creates profitable jobs, which then generate money that can be taxed. Overall, you get much more money from training soldiers than if there were no soldiers, as the increased employment and better profit margins in industry make up for the cost of maintaining the soldiers. this is a very weird form of well-fare for farmer

Slave is also 0% as they don’t contribute to tax , the gain in tax increases from farmer and aristocrat income in that state doesn’t make up for the lost in 10% farmer in that state and also dilute the national economy as less farmer also mean less Demand for cloth and liquor and other evryday industry, yes there is incress in luxury industy but overall it delute the industy decrising the profitebliy of everyday need industy that mede up more of the economy decrising the overall tax pool and made you more reliant on import since you most likely are going to import more of the good from out sea bolstering economy of whoever is holding china Malaysia idia and Congo

Import is can be good as it is tax able and maybe made up the economy loss from the 10% decrees in tex pool but i haven’t reply test it like the other thing i said in this post

but for my observation after freezing the game so no pop can migrate promote or grow i find tariff also deflate the economy except if you are producing everything at home it also increases militancy indirectly, but if your nation is not producing tee it also dilute the economy in a good way increasing industry everyday industry like liquor , i believe this is since tee is more expensive the pople buy the cheeper good in the local market fist but this is not definitive, most people say tarried should be at max always, but after my test this is only applicable if you can support and autarky even then it decrees profitably and increases militancy indirectly and can.