Approval Rating not affect population growth?

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I just was testing population growth on the first level of the campaign, seeing how my starting planet had 100% approval. Each turn gave a growth of .20 Mil, which according to the PDF manual, from page 31, seems to be incorrect.

"Population growth occurs at a fixed rate of 200,000 per turn, or
.20 M on the population display. If your approval rating reaches
100%, your population growth is doubled. "

Maybe I'm understanding this wrong? But I would think this is a per-planet rule not per-galaxy or empire rule?

Thanks for clearing this one up in advance.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I think it is probably a civ wide rule. having a planet at 100% approval is fairly common.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I read on another post that population growth is capped at 200,000, so the manual's just outdated if it's capped then it cannot be doubled. Apparently the population growth ability is also useless at this point.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
It does seem useless for a human player, although I have noticed that the 'Green' AI (can't remeber which race) is consistantly ahead in population. If I remember right they did have the population growth bonus.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The manual is a little out of date. Population is measured purely in the billions now. So growth per turn is 0.2 B (not M), which means 200 million per planet per turn. So at that rate, it would take 50 turns to go from a population of 0 to 10B.

A doubled rate should be 0.4 B per turn per planet, but I haven't checked to see if that works in game. And of course, if your approval gets too low, growth slows down, but I'm not sure of the exact threshold.

This change from millions to billions affects food as well. When your farms say "enough food for 5 million people", the game really means billion.

Edit: see the post "Honestly confused by food" for a related post and reply by Frogboy.