Yes, I have wrote devs DM on Facebook the other day regarding that. He said he's gonna look into it soon :)
Anyway, to solve your problem, exit the game and go back in

I also have this bug

Did you try restarting your game?

So it's been almost a year with no fix?

I think a bit less

This bug is still happening now, although there's actually a really stupid easy way to fix this. Which is go ahead and go on an expedition. The numbers are based on how many population are in the town, not how many there are total.

So sending your 1 person out will reset the number, this goes ahead and causes this bug to be null and void.

^^ I see you are playing idle civ atm. why? :) I mean, I would, but they gave up on this game I think

Well I like to go ahead and try stuff even if its been given up on. I happen to like this. Although the later achieves are bugged (the strange sight achievement isn't flagged properly) and the wood/stone/food achieves are near impossible to get.

Plus I actually have a rather odd problem because I have ended up obtaining 12 MILLION hero experience and since hero lvls max at 10 (which only takes like 12k exp to reach) I have no real purpose for it. If I could exchange hero exp for glory/fragments I could probably obtain everything in the game XD

really? this bug excists since 6 jan 2016? I'm dealing with a 33.5bil here..... c'mon!

I have the same problem.

Just started my first colony after the starting one, sitting at a population cap of 2/6, and i need 5.50 billion food to get a single new person from using influence to buy the first level of 'Settlers'.

I dunno if that was the cause, per-se, but it's when i noticed it, since it's supposed to decrease food needed per-person.

Originally posted by Vita Cordes:

really? this bug excists since 6 jan 2016? I'm dealing with a 33.5bil here..... c'mon!

I love how I am checking this 6 years later, and the person didn't bother reading my replies. I already gave you a way to fix it and you weren't paying attention! That and honestly you shouldn't be doing your first reset until you can earn a level of preservation techniques anyway. This is because preservation techniques completely removes this bug in the first place.

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.