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Revised statistics show numbers rising at a sustained pace not matched for 100 years. And the main factor behind the increase is immigration. The projections suggest that, in just over 30 years, Britain will overtake Germany as the most populous country in Europe.
All estimates produced two years ago have been revised heavily upwards in a report published yesterday by the Office for National Statistics. Over the next ten years, the population is expected to rise annually by 491,000. Leeds’s current total is 486,000.
Most will live in the already-crowded South of England.
www.dailymail.co.uk...
originally posted by: AmericanZombie
a reply to: eletheia
Yes, it's time for England to have it's first black (Afro-Englishman) King or Queen.
originally posted by: uncommitted
a reply to: gortex
Roughly 50% of that figure is through more people being born than people dying - that's surely through increased health?
Not sure about the legacy of the empire though - can't remember Poland, Lithuania, Romania etc being part of a British empire.
originally posted by: nonspecific
originally posted by: uncommitted
a reply to: gortex
Roughly 50% of that figure is through more people being born than people dying - that's surely through increased health?
Not sure about the legacy of the empire though - can't remember Poland, Lithuania, Romania etc being part of a British empire.
Completely agree, hence my post. Technically the UK is nowhere near overcrowded anyway, it's just not developed with houses and amenities to meet a rising population whatever the cause for that rise is.
The figures are easily manipulated as always.
There was a drop in births last year but also in deaths. Employment is also down th 5.5% second in Europe with only Germany having a lower rate.
I am not saying it is not an issue, simply that there are more factors than "immigrants" when looking at the situation.
Roughly 50% of that figure is through more people being born than people dying - that's surely through increased health?
More than half (54%) of the increase of the UK population between 1991 and 2012 was due to the direct contribution of net migration.
A recent ONS report (Dormon 2014) using the latest Census data for England and Wales has shown that births to foreign-born women made up 25.5% of all births in 2011, up from 16.4% one decade earlier (2001).
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk...
Not sure about the legacy of the empire though - can't remember Poland, Lithuania, Romania etc being part of a British empire.