Population
What is the population of Britain?
Do you mean Great Britain or the United Kingdom?
Many people confuse the two.
Great Britain (Britain) is made up of England, Scotland
and Wales, whereas the UK is Britain as well as Northern Ireland.
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Population
What is the population of Britain?
Do you mean Great Britain or the United Kingdom?
Many people confuse the two.
Great Britain (Britain) is made up of England, Scotland
and Wales, whereas the UK is Britain as well as Northern Ireland.
A census of the population in Britain has been taken every 10 years
since 1801 (with the exception of 1941, when Britain was at war).
The next census will be in 2011.
2001 Census
In 2001, the population of the United Kingdom was recorded at just under 59 million
people.
Great Britain is heavily populated compared with many other countries.
Britain is a relatively densely populated country: it is more than twice as densely
populated as France (106 people per sq.
km), nine times as densely populated as the
USA (27 people per sq.
km) and 100 times as densely populated as Australia (2 people
per sq.
km).
According to a BBC Report in September 2005, immigration made up more than half of
Britain s population growth f
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