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UK population increases by 400,000 to 64.1m (27 June 2014)

Date: 27/06/2014
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, UK population increases by 400,000 to 64.1m

Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that the UK population increased by more than 400,000 people in 2013 – bringing the total population to 64.1 million people.

The government is struggling to reduce net migration to David Cameron’s target figure of tens of thousands per year – previous figures show that net migration remained steady at around 200,000 last year.

The new figures show that Britain’s population grew by 0.63% last year, compared with 2012 figures.

Growth in the population of London accounted for one-quarter of the increase.

The UK now has the fastest growing population of any European member state.

The population in England has grown by 0.7% to 53.9 million people – while in Wales the population has grown by 0.27% to 3.1 million. In Northern Ireland, the population has grown by 0.33% to 1.8 million people.

In Scotland – which is due to vote on independence later this year – the population rose by 0.27% to 5.3 million.

The ONS says that although there has been an increase of 10 million in the UK population since the 1960s, half of that (5 million) has occurred since 2001.

A study by the University of Oxford has found that Northern Ireland has also become an increasingly popular choice for migrants to the UK, with the number of migrants living in Northern Ireland rising from 27,266 migrants in 2001 to a total of 81,314 migrants living in Northern Ireland in 2011.

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