PESTEL: social impact - population growth (Djaouida)

UK has had fastest growing population in Europe for a decade

Fastest growth in Europe takes UK population to 64.1 million with half of the increase since 1964 in the last 12 years alone, ONS figures show.

 

Mass immigration means Britain’s population has been growing twice as fast as the rest of Europe for the last decade – gaining as many people in that time as in the entire previous generation, official figures show.

 

The population of the UK passed the 64 million mark for the first time last year, experiencing by far the biggest annual growth in the EU, according to the Office for National Statistics.  It is now effectively the second most populous country in Europe after Germany, having overtaken France if the inhabitants of the French overseas departments and territories are excluded. 
 

Although a mini baby boom has contributed to the surge in the British population, immigration accounts for at least 60 per cent of the growth in the last decade, the ONS estimated.  That does not include the knock-on effect of immigration on birth rates, with around a quarter of new babies in the UK last year being born to foreign mothers.

Overall the population of the UK grew by just over 400,000 to 64.1 million in the year to mid-2013, according to the official annual estimate, adding the equivalent of the population of Bristol in a single year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10927865/UK-has-had-fastest-growing-population-in-Europe-for-a-decade-official-figures.html