The East African colony currently covered roughly 1.2 million square kilometers, including all of Tanzania and most of Kenya, with the north remaining under Arab and indigenous control.
Its area had already surpassed that of the German East Africa colony from Ernst's previous life. Due to the many indigenous states west of the Great Lakes Region, as well as their relatively dense populations, they had not yet been annexed by the East African colony.
Within such a vast territory, there were around 200,000 immigrants, including nearly 50,000 absorbed from the Austrian Empire over the past few months. The rest were all Chinese.
The East African colony had benefited from the domestic unrest caused by the Austrian Empire's current transition into the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the first month alone, it had absorbed around 30,000 immigrants from the Austrian Empire. That number had since fallen back to around 3,000 per month. Chinese immigrants, meanwhile, had been diverted because the Alaska colony was desperately short of manpower, leaving the number arriving in East Africa stable at roughly 10,000 per month.
However, Alaska did not need too large a population. Once it reached around 30,000, Ernst would no longer support further population migration there. By then, the number of Chinese immigrants heading to East Africa could probably stabilize at around 15,000 per month.
Moreover, most immigrants in the East African colony were currently farmers, placing their fertility among the top tier of the era. Their numbers basically doubled every year. After all, they had many children, but there was land enough to feed them; the colony also attached considerable importance to hygiene, so infant mortality was low.
Not to mention the old immigrants who had already lived in East Africa for some time—even the new immigrants from the Austrian Empire had joined the childbearing