The population of England and Wales has reached a historic peak of 59,597,300 people, according to the first results of the 2021 census.
The census is based on questionnaires completed by households on Sunday, March 21, 2021, and is a 6.3% increase over the 2011 figure of 56,075,912 – an additional 3.5 million people.
This means that the wider population of the United Kingdom is almost 67 million, after the results of the census published last month for Northern Ireland show a population of 1.9 million, and the latest estimate for Scotland, of 5.47 million, is add. the 70 million mark over the next five years, but population growth has declined slightly over the past decade.
The latest estimate of the population of the United Kingdom, made by the Office for National Statistics, is 67.1 million in mid-2020. There are 1.4 million more households than in 2011.
The snapshot of the population of England and Wales was unveiled at St Alban’s CE Primary School in Havant after students won a competition involving “counting things”.
This again showed an increased aging of the population. In 2011, 9.2 million people were aged 65 and over, an increase of almost 1 million compared to 2001 by 8.3 million. In 2021, the figure rose again to 11.1 million – more than one-sixth of the total. The population over the age of 90 has surpassed the half-million mark, rising to 527,900 people.
People under the age of 15 make up a declining share of the population, and 10.4 million have been outnumbered by people over the age of 65 in the last decade.
The overall figures mean that the United Kingdom remains the third largest country in Europe after Germany, which had 83.2 million people on 1 January 2021, and France, which had 67.7 million people on the same date, according to Eurostat.
England and Wales have 11.1 million more people than in 1981 (48.5 million). With 434 inhabitants per square kilometer, England now ranks as the second most populous country in Europe after the Netherlands (507 people per square kilometer), based on Eurostat data.
Census data play an important role in national and local government decisions on the allocation of health and education funds, guide housing locations and targets, and forecast future social care needs.
This is the 22nd full census in the UK; the first was in 1801. The undertaking takes place every 10 years except during World War II. Statisticians consider 1841 to be the first modern census, when the head of each household was given a form to fill in on behalf of everyone in the household on a given day.
This may be the last census of its kind. ONS has previously said it is looking for cheaper ways to collect data for the entire population by combining administrative data such as personal data, tax and driver’s licenses with regular population surveys. The government said its “ambition is to conduct post-2021 censuses using other data sources and provide more timely statistics.”
More detailed figures will be published in the autumn, illustrating the changes in ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, religion, language and education of people in England and Wales. Data on health, housing, unpaid care, disability, work and veterans of the UK Armed Forces will also be published later this year.
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