UK City Population

Hello and welcome to another video in a series of the labour market. We're looking here demographic change which is any change in the population for example in terms of average age dependency ratios life expectancy etcetera. An initial video asking the question of what all the key drivers of population growth. Take a moment to look at the population summary for the U. K. in 2014 the media estimate of the total population will 64.6 million people and crucially poor from the point of view of this video the U. K. population has increased by just under 10 percent since 2001. Now the average percentage change in the U.K population is under one percent per year. There's been a lot of media interest in the lap of glee growing U. K. population. And some other extreme forecasts of where the population might be for example in 15 years. But this talk tells is that actually for most years the change in the population is a positive has been less than one percent averaging around .75 percent over a 2215 the population grew by .81 percent. Now there are two key drivers of population growth. There is natural population growth which is the birth rate minus the death rate follow the line in blue in this chart and we can see that the natural growth of population has edged up actually in the last 10 to 15 years. For under 100,000 per year to over 200,000 per year. so in 2014, the growth of population due to the birth rate minus the death rate was just over 200,000 people. The second key driver population growth is net international migration. And you can see from the U. K. chart for the Orange Line here that net migration into the U. K. house being quite strongly positive so near the last 10 years. I have the 2 together you can see that all populations if you follow the lining grey on this chart U. K. population growing in excess of 400,000 people per year since 2005 and rising above 500,000 in some of those yes.