Britain to be biggest country in Europe by 2050 - Telegraph
Britain will see its population swell from today's 62.2 million to 77 million, an increase of 24 per cent.
This will make it bigger than France, projected to be 70 million and Germany, which is predicted to have 71.5 million citizens.
The predictions suggest that Britain will see its population increase over the next 40 years at a far faster rate than nearly every other European country. The extra 15 million equates to the combined populations of Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool being added to the total national population over the next two generations.
Britain's population has started to climb sharply in recent years. Last year the Office for National Statistics indicated that mothers had more children than at any time since 1973.
Immigrant mothers accounted for more than half of the increase in births, but the fertility rate among British-born women also rose sharply.
This would never (had) happened under the Tories.
Budge up.
Britain will see its population swell from today's 62.2 million to 77 million, an increase of 24 per cent.
This will make it bigger than France, projected to be 70 million and Germany, which is predicted to have 71.5 million citizens.
The predictions suggest that Britain will see its population increase over the next 40 years at a far faster rate than nearly every other European country. The extra 15 million equates to the combined populations of Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool being added to the total national population over the next two generations.
Britain's population has started to climb sharply in recent years. Last year the Office for National Statistics indicated that mothers had more children than at any time since 1973.
Immigrant mothers accounted for more than half of the increase in births, but the fertility rate among British-born women also rose sharply.
This would never (had) happened under the Tories.
Budge up.
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