I'm simply looking at the racial abilities from raceconfig.xml, which is why Altarians, and the Thalans were included their not in TA yet however.

I forgot about the Drath, since their description talks about weak economy not weak population growth specifically, though i've never notice it hamper them too much in my games..maybe its cause their so good at making people to go to war that they rarely have to waste troops.

But so far, the racial descriptions have been misleading on the specific disability of that race, and thus making pre-game strategy making very hard as you cannot rely on your enemies weaknesses, except in case of the Drath, and the Korx. Not to mention, making the equation unbalanced since some races are given disabilities that affect them in reality, and some races just in a line of text but remain otherwise normal. The Torians for example, are usually on top of the research chart rather than bottom of it, even with their weak research improvements(they just make up for it by spamming more of them, or spy/conquer other races for better ones).

There is a post around here talking nothing but about the Drath's startup in TA now being an economical nightmare. When I played them, I tossed points into pop growth +25. I know it kind of defeats the purpose and flavor of the race, but if you think about it, that was 2-3 points that weren't placed in the typical places....

Out of the gates they are slow economically. Once you get the techs for War Profiting and you get wars rolling, your looking at about 1k a week in income that'll easily make things better.