Demography of The United Kingdom - Population

Population

The population of the United Kingdom in the 2011 census was 63.1 million.

Average population (/ 1,000) Live births Deaths Natural change Crude birth rate (per 1,000) Crude death rate (per 1,000) Natural change (per 1,000) Fertility rates
1960 52,164 918,286 604,592 313,694 17.5 11.5 6.0 2.71
1961 52,589 944,365 635,507 308,858 17.9 12.0 5.9 2.80
1962 53,049 975,635 632,951 342,684 18.3 11.9 6.4 2.88
1963 53,458 990,160 654,300 335,860 18.5 12.2 6.3 2.91
1964 53,807 1,014,672 610,508 404,164 18.8 11.3 7.5 2.95
1965 54,170 992,275 627,567 369,708 18.3 11.5 6.8 2.86
1966 54,496 979,587 644,193 335,394 17.9 11.8 6.1 2.77
1967 54,800 961,700 620,385 341,315 17.5 11.3 6.2 2.68
1968 55,086 947,231 652,135 295,099 17.2 11.8 5.4 2.61
1969 55,337 920,258 661,509 258,749 16.6 11.9 4.7 2.50
1970 55,546 903,907 652,817 251,090 16.2 11.7 4.5 2.43
1971 55,780 901,650 644,042 257,608 16.1 11.5 4.6 2.41
1972 56,012 833,993 679,211 154,782 14.9 12.1 2.8 2.20
1973 56,159 779,545 664,722 114,823 13.9 11.8 2.1 2.04
1974 56,229 737,138 666,393 70,745 13.1 11.9 1.2 1.92
1975 56,230 697,518 661,803 35,715 12.4 11.8 0.6 1.81
1976 56,220 675,526 680,096 -4,570 12.0 12.3 -0.3 1.74
1977 56,203 657,038 656,042 996 11.7 11.7 0.0 1.68
1978 56,183 686,952 668,747 18,205 12.2 11.9 0.3 1.75
1979 56,209 734,572 672,641 61,931 13.1 12.0 1.1 1.86
1980 56,284 753,708 659,862 93,846 13.4 11.7 1.7 1.89
1981 56,343 730,836 658,524 72,312 13.0 11.7 1.3 1.82
1982 56,324 719,155 662,801 56,354 12.8 11.8 1.0 1.78
1983 56,301 721,467 659,101 62,366 12.8 11.7 1.1 1.77
1984 56,362 729,617 644,918 84,699 12.9 11.4 1.5 1.76
1985 56,481 750,728 670,656 80,072 13.2 11.8 1.4 1.79
1986 56,618 754,982 660,465 94,517 13.3 11.6 1.7 1.78
1987 56,743 775,617 644,342 131,275 13.6 11.3 2.3 1.81
1988 56,860 787,556 649,185 138,371 13.8 11.4 2.4 1.82
1989 56,996 777,825 657,733 119,552 13.6 11.5 2.1 1.79
1990 57,156 798,612 641,799 156,813 13.9 11.2 2.7 1.83
1991 57,338 792,506 646,181 146,325 13.7 11.2 2.5 1.82
1992 57,511 780,799 634,288 146,561 13.5 10.9 2.6 1.79
1993 57,649 761,526 657,852 103,674 13.1 11.3 1.8 1.76
1994 57,788 750,480 627,637 122,843 12.9 10.7 2.2 1.74
1995 57,943 731,882 645,493 86,389 12.5 11.0 1.5 1.71
1996 58,094 733,163 636,024 97,139 12.6 10.9 1.7 1.73
1997 58,239 726,622 629,746 96,876 12.5 10.8 1.7 1.73
1998 58,394 716,889 629,172 87,717 12.8 10.8 1.8 1.71
1999 58,579 699,979 632,062 67,917 11.9 10.8 1.1 1.68
2000 58,785 679,029 608,366 70,663 11.5 10.3 1.2 1.64
2001 58,999 669,123 602,268 66,855 11.3 10.2 1.1 1.63
2002 59,217 668,777 606,214 62,563 11.3 10.2 1.5 1.65
2003 59,437 695,549 611,185 84,364 11.7 10.3 1.4 1.71
2004 59,699 715,996 583,082 132,914 12.0 9.7 2.3 1.77
2005 60,059 722,549 582,663 139,886 12.0 9.7 2.3 1.79
2006 60,409 748,563 572,224 176,339 12.4 9.4 3.0 1.85
2007 60,781 772,245 574,687 197,558 12.7 9.4 3.3 1.90
2008 61,191 794,383 579,697 214,686 12.9 9.4 3.5 1.96
2009 61,595 790,204 559,617 230,587 12.8 9.1 3.7 1.94
2010 62,026 807,272 561,666 245,606 13.0 9.0 4.0 1.98
2011 62,476 807,778 552,232 255,546 12.9 8.8 4.1 1.97
Part Population (2010) Percentage (2010)
England 51,809,700 83.8 83.8
Scotland 5,222,100 8.4 8.4
Wales 3,006,400 4.8 4.8
Northern Ireland 1,789,000 3.0 3
United Kingdom 61,827,200 100 100

(1 July 2006 population estimates by UK National Statistics)

There are 11 urban areas which exceed 500,000 inhabitants, these being centred on London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds and Bradford, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Belfast, Bristol, Newcastle upon Tyne and Nottingham.

Population levels at census dates and average adjustments annually (thousands)

United Kingdom Population
at start of period		 Overall
annual change		 Births Deaths Natural change Net migration
and other changes
1901 – 1911 38,237 385 1,091 624 467 -82
1911 – 1921 42,082 195 975 689 286 -92
1921 – 1931 44,027 201 824 555 268 -67
1931 – 1951 46,038 213 793 603 190 22
1951 – 1961 50,225 258 839 593 246 12
1961 – 1971 52,807 312 962 638 324 -12
1971 – 1981 55,928 42 736 666 69 -27
1981 – 1991 56,357 108 757 655 103 5
1991 – 2001 57,439 161 731 631 100 61
2001 – 2008 59,113 324 722 588 134 191

Read more about this topic:  Demography Of The United Kingdom

Famous quotes containing the word population:

    “The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that’s 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We’re in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.”
    —Thomas McGuane (b. 1939)

    “The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)