UK Population to grow 25%, Britain biggest country in Europe by 2050

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

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 forecasts come form the Population Reference Bureau, a US body which supplies data to governments and institutions around the world.

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.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that France's population, in contrast, will increase at half the rate, adding 7 million to its 63 million. While Germany will actually see its population fall sharply from 81.6 million to 71.5 million because of a lack of immigration, and a far lower birth rate than that in Britain. It already has the second oldest population in the world after Japan, with one in five of all Germans over the age of 65.

Europe, in total, will see its population dip from 739 million to 720 million, because of its low birth rate.

The world's population will increase inexorably, swelling from 6.89 billion to 9.49 billion. India will be responsible for a significant part of this increase, becoming the largest country in the world by overtaking China.

The country, which hit 1 billion just a decade ago and now has a population of 1.19 billion, is expected to hit 1.75 billion, adding the equivalent of the entire population of the European Union in a mere 40 years.

China's population will increase, but relatively modestly, moving from 1.34 billion to 1.48 billion.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7916924/Britain-to-be-biggest-country-in-Europe-by-2050.html

Great for the economy and house prices. :beer:

Not so good for xenophobes and claustrophobics...:D

Malcolm.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7916924/Britain-to-be-biggest-country-in-Europe-by-2050.html

Great for the economy and house prices. :beer:

Not so good for xenophobes and claustrophobics...:D

It's bad news for greenies keen on sustainability, clean water and clean air. It's also bad news for wages.

Maybe I'll emigrate..

Procrastinator333

Great, they can take the current annual rate, approx 375k and multiply by 40. :T They are so clever.

maveli

Who cares ? many posters here will not reqyure a house by that time.

sss555s

Have they taken into account we have a new government now? :money:

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

sss555s wrote: »

Have they taken into account we have a new government now? :money:

Non-EU economic migration is the only part of immigration the government can limit. And it's only 20% of immigration. The new caps are set at 95% of last years level. So a 1% fall in overall immigration..... Hardly a significant change.

Besides, the new cap is already being slated by business leaders and a U-Turn looks ever more likely.

sss555s

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Non-EU economic migration is the only part of immigration the government can limit. And it's only 20% of immigration. The new caps are set at 95% of last years level. So a 1% fall in overall immigration..... Hardly a significant change.

Besides, the new cap is already being slated by business leaders and a U-Turn looks ever more likely.

It wasn't so much about the cap but more that the UK may not be as appealing as it was for migrants.

Wookster

How anyone can predict 40 years into the future with a straight face, especially after what has happened over the last few years here.

Who know what will happen over the next 5 years, let alone the next 40!

Never has there been more uncertainty.

Procrastinator333

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Non-EU economic migration is the only part of immigration the government can limit. And it's only 20% of immigration. The new caps are set at 95% of last years level. So a 1% fall in overall immigration..... Hardly a significant change.

Besides, the new cap is already being slated by business leaders and a U-Turn looks ever more likely.

And if you look at the latest stats from the ons, EU migration is falling.

Procrastinator333

Hamish, you have posted articles about rising population so many times. They are all basically the same, somebody takes the current run rate and multiplys by 20, 30, 40 etc.

Do you not have anything new to contribute?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Procrastinator333 wrote: »

Hamish, you have posted articles about rising population so many times. They are all basically the same, somebody takes the current run rate and multiplys by 20, 30, 40 etc.

Seriously?

Do you actually believe that the UK Government, the United Nations, the PRB, pretty much every institution out there that keeps releasing similar reports that you don't believe, just take last years figure and multiply it by 30?

All those resources, all those experts in the field, incredibly important policy decisions at stake, and it's as simple as taking last years number and multiplying by 30?

You can't possibly be that naive..... Can you?

Do you not have anything new to contribute?

As opposed to your entirely repetitive angle that prices are going nowhere so FTB's won't lose out by waiting...... Which you post in so many threads, it almost seems like you're trying to convince yourself as much as anyone else. Not surprising given that prices are up 10% since you started mentioning it.;)