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  • Population........................................................................60,441,457 (July 2005 est.)
  • Population growth rate ...............................................................0.28% (2005 est.)
  • Birth rate.....................................................10.78 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
  • Death rate..................................................10.18 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
  • Net migration rate.................................2.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
  • Ethnic groups.........white 92.1%, black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%, other 1.6% (2001 census)
Member of what is now the European Union since 1973.

United Kingdom: Rising Numbers, Rising Anxieties
With immigration a hot political topic, the UK government is trying to prove it is meeting labor market needs while tightly controlling flows, according to Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah and Francesca Hopwood Road of the Institute for Public Policy Research in this updated UK profile.

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