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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]
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 ...
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 ...
From that year to 1950, a census of agriculture was taken every ten years, in conjunction with the decennial censuses of population. Later, the timing was adjusted, such that the census of agriculture is conducted on the basis of a five-year data collection cycle, covering the years ending in 2 and 7.
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]
Under the 100-year closure rule established after the 1911 census was taken, only summary results for censuses after 1939 – though with significant statistical detail – are published in the months [b] following the enumeration dates given below; the full information (individual household entries) in later censuses will not be released until the dates stated, a century after each later ...
Population of the United Kingdom by country (2022) [1] Country Land area Population Density (/km 2) (km 2) People (%) England 130,310 54% 57,106,398 84% 438