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I mean, more people also means more people available for your army. It's probably a wash all things considered.
Conquest is more difficult in the modern day due to military technology increasingly privileging the defender, and organizational technology creating coherent states and national identities which resist absorption into a hostile polity better than the subjects of dynastic regimes.