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POPULATION AND POPULATION DENSITY OF UNITED KINGDOM
|COUNTRY |POPULATION |POPULATION DENSITY |
| |(million) |(people/ km²) |
| |2010 |2011 |2012 |2010 |2011 |2012 |
|England |52.6 |53 |53.5 |255 |259.38 |411 |
|Scotland |5.22 |5.29 |5.3 |67 |67.2 |68 |
|Wales |3.0 |3.1 |3.1 |145 |140 |148 |
|Northern Ireland |1.8 |1.8 |1.8 |133 |133 |134 |
Population is the total number of people in a given area, wether that be a city, county, country, continent, etc. Population density would be the population divided by the area of the given population.
The population of the UK, which includes England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, is 60,776,238. The population density is 246/km2.
Great Britain is heavily populated compared with many other countries.Britain is a relatively densely populated country: it is more than twice as densely populated as France (106 people per sq.km), nine times as densely populated as the USA (27 people per sq.km) and 100 times as densely populated as Australia (2 people per sq.km). Britain ranks 18th in the world in terms of population size.
The population is very unequally distributed over the four parts of the UK: England more or less constantly makes up 84% of the total population, Wales around 5%, Scotland roughly 8.5 %, and Northern Ireland (since 1921) less than 3%.
From the table above you can see that the biggest...