Saturday 27 October 2007

Population Growth


There's been a lot of thinking and heead scratching at the prospect of the UK population swelling to 71 million by 2031. But big surges have been predicted before and they haven't always been right.
In 1965 the government's demographers and statisticians projected that the population in 2001 would be 75 million. They were wrong. It was 58,789,194 on census day in 2001. Will the new figures be correct? Read the rest here. What are the implications for you? Read here.

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