The State of The Genophage In Andromeda

Oh ok. I was thinking since they were having so many stillbirths they would be nearing extinction soon. Thanks for the clarity 

From what i got the birth rates just very slightly improved, nowhere near 100%

Though i am not sure if you would want Krogans on an 100% birth rate for the simple reason that breed very very fast apparently without genophage.

Though i have a lot more faith in the Heleus Krogan than the milky way ones including wrex. I have met so many friendly, polite and nice Krogan i was surprised, guess Andromeda did screen krogans more efficiently than everyone else.a

It's 4%, not 100%.

Also, the Krogan have been awake the entire time and spent that time studying and improving their tech knowledge.

They were the engineers on the Nexus.

"It was my remnant ship and this is my core, give it to me or we are enemies forever!" *sigh* You guys, remember your history pretty well, yet fail to make right conclusion every time. Makes me want to say "go on, declare the war on Nexus, fight with thousand of krogans against 50k of people and see how it ends. Or you can just ask that old spiky guy out there on what happened, when you did it last time."

Well, yeah, it's noticeable, but they nowhere close to being in charge.

Low birth rate did not account for their dying off.  Tbh, a race with a thousand year life span in no way needs to give birth to 1000 krogan in a shot - and that's per krogan female, not overall.  It's unsustainable.  However, the krogan had no hope when seeing the "piles of dead babies".  (Or eggs?  This part is unclear.)  The result was in-fighting and going off-world to become mercenaries rather than something productive.  The fighting and dying was what was killing them off.

Also, I think the increase in birthrate in Andromeda is 4%, which is, as said above, 40x the 1% they had prior.  In Andromeda, they will need more numbers but it's still not useful for them to have a near-100% rate of survival.  They lack the resources to care for that many children.

Anyone actually have the math on Krogan reproduction rates?

Kesh says 2 things
Only 1 in 1000 survive birth=0.1% which would kill any live birth species
Viability of 4% now

Which should mean that 40 survive every 1000.

If there was no genophage does that mean 100% or near 100% birth rates. Because by these numbers if krogan lay multiple eggs they could populate the entire galaxy in a few decades.

Yes.  The real problem was that the salarians uplifted the krogan.  Perhaps, had evolution taken its natural course, the amount of eggs lain would have decreased.  The reason the clutches were so high was because pretty much everything on Tuchanka was deadly.  Normally, few survived to adulthood because they were killed off.  I believe that's typical in nature.  I suppose it's possible that the genophage adjusted for evolutionary processes but it was done in a horrifying way.