The role of the population in the production of national power and promotion of national authority

Population is considered as an effective factor in shaping the power of countries, especially in military, political and economic aspects. So that population growth in a society and country means more power of the rulers. Therefore, usually in theoretical discussions, the concept of national power is defined as the ability, ability and capacity of a country with a nation to use its own material and spiritual resources with the aim of exercising spiritual will and achieving national goals and interests, and this is where the importance of the factor comes from. The population is prominent in the production of national powerThe purpose of this research is to investigate the role of the population in the production of national power and promotion of national authority. In order to carry out this research, several methods were used, which are: the method of reviewing scientific documents and documents with a background approach and the method of content analysis with both in-depth and broad approaches. The current research is of an applied type and its statistical population is the books and articles that have been written about measuring national power and have presented a formula for this. The result of this research shows that in all the studied models, the population is seen as a main factor of power and has the highest coefficient of importance in the calculation of national power. This factor causes the growth and promotion of national authority in the country.