World Population Day

Questions on UK population
POPULATION DENSITY (PER SQUARE KM)

England 413

Wales 149

Scotland had the

N.Ireland 135 lowest population
density at 68 people
per sq km in
Scotland 68 mid-2013.

‘PROJECTED TOTAL POPULATION,

ANNUAL GROWTH RATE’

+0.6%
+0.4%
+0.3% +0.3%

Wales Scotland N.Ireland England

mid-2012 to mid-2037

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LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH TOTAL FERTILITY RATE NET INTERNATIONAL

MIGRATION
England N.Ireland
England
79.0 82.8 2.03
years years
158,000
Wales England
Scotland
78.1 82.1 1.94 14,000
years years

N.Ireland Wales Wales

77.7 82.1 8,000

years years 1.88

N.Ireland
Scotland Scotland
-2,000
76.5 80.7 1.67
years years
England, Scotland and
Wales had more more immigrants
2010-2012 2012 than emigrants in 2012.

Wales N.Ireland
4.8% TOTAL UK 2.9%
POPULATION

Scotland
64.1 England
8.3% MILLION 84.0%

England Scotland Wales N.Ireland

53.9 5.3 3.1 1.8

million million million million

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COUNTRY OF BIRTH

Wales 21.8%

Scotland 9.7%

N.Ireland 4.6%

England 2.7%

Percentage of the country’s population born in one of the other constituent nations of the U.K. 2011 cencus.

The above data was collected on behalf of the UK government in 2013

1. How much bigger than the population density of Northern Ireland was the population density
of England?

2. What was the population of Scotland? Give your answer to the nearest million.

3. What was the combined total population of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

4. Out of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England, which country had the highest percentage
of its population born in one of the other 3 constituent nations of the UK?

5. What was the range of life expectancy at birth for women for the four countries?

6. Which country had the highest net migration?

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7. Which country had the lowest net migration?

8. The total fertility rate gives the number of living children that a female will give birth to, on
average, during her lifetime. Which of the four countries had the highest fertility rate?

9. Which country had the population which was predicted to grow at the fastest rate?

10. For which gender and in which country was the life expectancy at birth highest?

11. According to the projected total population, annual growth rate, what would the population of
Scotland have been after 1 year?

12. On average, what area of land was there, per person, for those living in Scotland? Give your answer
in km² to correct to 3d.p.

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