UK Population
- Created by: Julie Simpkin
- Created on: 09-05-13 19:24
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- Changes in UK Population
- Family size
- Fell during early 20th century
- Increased towards mid-20th century
- Baby boom are WW2 - average of 2.46 children for women born in 1934
- Expected to fall further
- Population structure
- Life expectency has increased from around 50 in 1990 to 77 for men and 81 for women today
- In future, higher proportion of over 60's
- Migration and ethnicity
- Before WW2 - lots of German and Irish people migrated to the UK
- After war, immigrants came from Soviet Union countries - Ukraine
- Lots of people come from central and eastern european countries like Poland since they joined the EU in 2004
- A8 countries
- Social Status
- Middle class is growing as number of people in higher education increases
- Increase in average wage
- Increase in higher-class activities e.g. skiing holidays
- Middle class is growing as number of people in higher education increases
- NHS established (1948) - health care increased - life expectancy increases
- Increasing A-level and university take up - more jobs in tertiary sector
- Periods of global recession (great depresion 1929) - less money - can't afford children - birth rate decreases
- Family size
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