{"id":47305,"date":"2019-10-22T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T00:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47305"},"modified":"2019-10-22T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T00:05:09","slug":"britains-population-to-reach-almost-70-million-within-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47305","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Population To Reach Almost 70 Million Within Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LONDON, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; The population of Britain is expected to reach almost 70 million by 2028, driven up mainly by immigration, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ONS said, England&#8217;s population is likely to grow more quickly than the other parts of Britain, increasing five percent between mid-2018 and mid-2028 to 58.8 million, compared with 3.7 percent for Northern Ireland (two million), 1.8 percent for Scotland (5.5 million) and 0.6 percent for Wales (3.2 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The population is projected to increase by three million, or 4.5 percent, from an estimated 66.4 million in mid-2018, to 69.4 million in mid-2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The analysis shows that, over the next 10 years, 27 percent of Britain&#8217;s population growth is projected to result from more births than deaths, with 73 percent of growth resulting from net international migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statisticians estimate that Britain&#8217;s population is projected to pass 70 million by mid-2031, reaching 72.4 million by 2043.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ONS said, there will be an increasing number of older people, with the proportion aged 85 years and over, projected to almost double over the next 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain&#8217;s population in 1993 was 57.7 million, passing 60 million in 2004.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; The population of Britain is expected to reach almost 70 million by 2028, driven up mainly by immigration, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, Monday. ONS said, England&#8217;s population is likely to grow more quickly than the other parts of Britain, increasing five percent between mid-2018 and mid-2028 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}