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In 2020, the United Kingdom’s total population was 68,050,379 (0.87% of the total global population). It is the 21st most populated country in the world. England is having a significantly greater density than Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. About a 3ird of the population lives in England’s southeast.
Countries of the United Kingdom sized according to population
The Reddit user NationalFront_Disco made an exciting map showing if one hundred people lived in the United Kingdom, where would they live.
If 100 people lived in the United Kingdom, where would they live?
Over the past 200 years, England’s population has increased 5.4 times, Wales 4 times, Scotland 2.7 times. Over the same period, the population of the entire island of Ireland remained practically unchanged.
Population Change of the United Kingdom and Ireland over 200 years
The population of the UK has experienced demographic transformation – the transformation from a pre-industrial population, with high birth and death rates and slow population increase, through a stage of declining mortality and faster rates of population increase, to a stage of low birth and death rates with lower rates of growth. This natural growth has been followed in the past 2 decades by increasing migration into the UK, which since 1999 has surpassed natural change.
Nowadays, 83.2 percent of the UK’s population is urban (~56,5 million people, 2020). The median age in the UK is about 40.5 years.
