The population of England and Wales has hit a record high of 59,597,300, according to the first results from the 2021 census.
The count was based on questionnaires filled out by households on Sunday 21 March 2021 and is an 6.3% increase on the 2011 figure of 56,075,912 – an extra 3.5 million people.
It means the wider UK population is almost 67 million, once census results published last month for Northern Ireland, showing a population of 1.9 million, and the latest estimate for Scotland, of 5.47 million, are added in. The total is on course to break the 70 million mark in the next five years, but population growth has decreased slightly over the last decade.
The overall figures mean the UK remains the third largest country in Europe behind Germany, which had 83.2 million people on 1 January 2021, and France, which at the same date had 67.7 million people, according to Eurostat.
There are 11.1 million more people living in England and Wales than there were in 1981 (48.5 million). With 434 residents per square kilometre, England now ranks as the second most densely populated country in Europe after the Netherlands (507 persons per sq km), based on figures from Eurostat.
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