"political arithmetic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations",
          "text": "I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.",
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          "ref": "2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 221",
          "text": "The most basic effect of political arithmetic was namely to establish that a nation's strength depended above all on the number of inhabitants [...].",
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        "The demographic statistics of a country or state."
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