Population Raising

Population raising is one of the four options you can do in the "Comforting" tab in the Town Hall. Population Raising costs gold and will intermediately raise the population. However, the population seems to decrease as soon as this is applied. It is not recommended to do this unless your population is near 0 and/or the quest requests it. Alternative ways to boost population is lowering tax, pray, disaster relief, upgrade existing cottages, build more cottages, and decreasing labor rate (also dismissing troops, however, this is not recommended.).