Computed population of cataclysmic variables at the current epoch in the q‐P_orb plane for our standard model (see Table 1); ﹩q\equiv M_{2}/ M_{\mathrm{WD}\,}﹩. The color represents the logarithm of the number of systems in a particular q‐P_orb cell, of which there are 100 per ﹩\Delta q=0.1﹩ and 100 per hour interval in P_orb. The color scale is given on the right‐hand side of the figure.