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[2] [3] Since the Second World War, the service sector has come to account for the majority of jobs, a feature typifying most advanced economies. [4] From the middle of the 19th century until the post-war era, the mining and export of coal was a dominant industry.
Not all of the British occupational categories have been subdivided, and there are more articles about Welsh people in the British people by occupation categories. Subcategories This category has the following 63 subcategories, out of 63 total.
In 2016, an analysis of the geography of Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people (nearly 35% of the Welsh population) have a family name of Welsh origin, compared with 5.3% in the rest of the United Kingdom, 4.7% in New Zealand, 4.1% in Australia, and 3.8% in the United States, with an estimated 16.3 ...
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The Welsh fishing industry is the smallest in the UK, with about 1,000 full-time and 400 part-time fishermen. [38] Commercial fishing in Wales employs approximately 600 people full-time and is valued at 39,000,000 pounds sterling. [66] 92% of Welsh fishing vessels are designated small-scale.
Wales (Welsh: Cymru ⓘ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic Sea to the south-west.
The Welsh export economy collapsed during the inter-war recession, a victim of increasing protectionism and the rise of new competitors overseas. As global terms of trade changed, unemployment in the South Wales Valleys soared to unprecedented levels during the early 1930s (up to 59% in Merthyr and 76% in Pontypridd ), despite the exodus of ...
Dog-free zones should be introduced to help make the Welsh outdoors “anti-racist”, the Welsh government has been advised. A report by climate action group Climate Cymru BAME has recommended ...