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The UK currently produces about 54% of its domestic food consumption. [1] Agricultural activity occurs in most rural locations. It is concentrated in the drier east (for crops) and the wetter west (for livestock). There are 191,000 farm holdings, which vary widely in size. [2]
The Saxons and the Vikings had open-field farming systems and there was an expansion of arable farming between the 8th-13th centuries in England [13] Under the Normans and Plantagenets fens were drained, woods cleared and farmland expanded to feed a rising population, until the Black Death reached Britain in 1349. Agriculture remained by far ...
FAOSTAT serves as the foremost authoritative source of agrifood systems data, including food security, agriculture and nutrition; agriculture production and trade; prices of commodities; investment; population and employment in agrifood systems; food and diet; land, inputs and sustainability, climate change and agrifood systems emissions; structural data on agriculture; and it includes data ...
The population of the United Kingdom was estimated at 67,596,281 in 2022. [1] It is the 21st most populated country in the world and has a population density of 279 people per square kilometre (720 people/sq mi), with England having significantly greater density than Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. [1]
In 2023, the percentage of live births where either one or both parents were born outside of the UK was 38.2 per cent. 32.7 per cent of all live births in England were to mothers born outside of the UK (9.0% born in the EU, 23.7% born outside of the EU). [16]
Historically, the cattle population of Britain rose from 9.8 million in 1878 to 11.7 million in 1908, but beef consumption rose much faster. Britain became the "stud farm of the world" exporting livestock to countries where there were no indigenous cattle. In 1929 80% of the meat trade of the world was products of what were originally English ...
The UK Census of Population 1991 (Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography) Census.ac.uk - free census resources for academic research in the UK. Official archived version of 2011 census website (www.census.gov.uk) United Kingdom Census Records- Directory of free-to-access online UK census records.
UK interest rates rise from 1.75 to 2.25%, the biggest increase in 27 years, as the Bank of England attempts to curb inflation. [504] The UK government announces a 1.25% rise in National Insurance contributions will be reversed from 6 November. The planned Health and Social Care Levy will also be scrapped.