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Europe > United Kingdom > People

BRITISH PEOPLE STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Age at first marriage for men 29.8 years [15th of 19]
Age at first marriage for women 27.7 years [13th of 19]
Definition: People > Age at first marriage for women
Age structure > 0-14 years 17.7 [190th of 226]
Definition: People > Age structure > 0-14 years
Average size of households 2.4 [11th of 17]
Definition: People > Average size of households
Birth rate 10.65 births/1,000 population Time series [182nd of 226]
Definition: People > Birth rate
Chinese population 250,000 [13th of 127]
Definition: People > Chinese population
Death rate 10.05 deaths/1,000 population Time series [67th of 226]
Definition: People > Death rate
Divorce rate 3.08 per 1,000 people [4th of 34]
Definition: People > Divorce rate
Ethnic groups
white (of which English 83.6%, Scottish 8.6%, Welsh 4.9%, Northern Irish 2.9%) 92.1%, black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%, other 1.6%
Definition: People > Ethnic groups
Marriage rate 6.8 [10th of 27]
Definition: People > Marriage rate
Nobel prize laureates 100 [2nd of 44]
Definition: People > Nobel prize laureates
Population 60,943,912 Time series [22nd of 242]
Definition: People > Population
Population growth rate 0.276% Time series [176th of 235]
Definition: People > Population growth rate
Population in 2015 61,417 [22nd of 225]
Definition: People > Population in 2015
Projected population growth 6.87% [106th of 141]
Definition: People > Projected population growth
Sex ratio > Under 15 years 1.05 male(s)/female Time series [82nd of 224]
Definition: People > Sex ratio > Under 15 years
Teenage birth rate 30.8 [2nd of 28]
Definition: People > Teenage birth rate
Total fertility rate 1.66 children born/woman Time series [173rd of 225]
Definition: People > Total fertility rate
Total Population 60,609,153 [22nd of 227]
Definition: People > Total Population
Urbanization 90 [22nd of 204]
Definition: People > Urbanization

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SOURCES: 1980 figures and 1999 figures for EU countries are from European Social Statistics Demography 2001. Australian figures are from ABS, Year Book Australia 2003 - Population. Marriages and Divorces and the latest figure is for 2001. Figures for other European and North American countries come from UN Economic Commission for Europe, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN, NY, 2001). New Zealand figures from Maureen Baker, Families, Labour and Love (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001). Japanese figures from Japan Almanac 1998 (Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo). Figures for other countries from UN Statistics Division, The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics. Spanish Statistical Institute; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN Economic Commission for Europe, NY, 2001), p. 74; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; University Libraries, Ohio University; divorcereform.org2004; United Nations, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, April 2001; The Nobel Foundation; World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook; Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpp; Population Reference Bureau, 2001 World Population Data Sheet, Washington, DC: PRB, 2001. via ciesin.org; UNICEF; U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, International Programs Center Spanish Statistical Institute; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights (ESA/P/WP.173, 20 March 2002)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, britain, great britain, united kingdom of great britain and northern irela, united king., The United Kingdom

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