What had once been a relatively healthy 3,000 or so individuals dropped down to around 110 still alive on the island, a dramatic difference from the estimated 15,000 people that would have led to the collapse. This rapid population decline right before the supposed collapse due to deforestation further points towards the original Easter Island theory being wrong.
There is still some debate on if the Easter Island theory was entirely wrong, though. While it likely isn’t the reason the island collapsed, that isn’t to say it wouldn’t have been the reason in the future had the Europeans not visited, as there was some evidence of overexploitation, but it wasn’t at a critical level.
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