Population is even more important in this game than EL1, so it needs more stats and info showing.  How about a simple 0/9 type text on systems and also zoomed in systems?


Like this:  http://imgur.com/JeIqiOp


and, of course, the with the galaxy view too.


That way we can see important info on population levels at a glance, instead of having to zoom down several levels, and "remember" what the levels are.