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Now neccesarally. The race of men in ME seemed to have started from quite a few houses with quite a few people to begin with and at first they spread out very quickly. The people in Europe, on the other hand, had to go meandering through central Asia before they got there, and after getting to a pretty decent prime (Rome) had a horrendous fall in population due to meteors, climate changes, plague, ect. so it is very probable that the populations of middle and mideval earth are very close. One must not forget that there were many races of men populating the east and south(Not just the Easternlings, Southrons, and Haradians). We really only hear about a third of middle earth and the other two thirds were populated almost exclusively by men since they did not have elves to share land with and were alied to Sauron so they did not have him attacking them constantly and releasing plague, endocrine disruptors, and other population downers on them.