Insight UK. People (FCO, 2001).pdf

INSIGHT UK

People

Total population:

59.5 million people.

POPULATION

Population density:

373 people per square km.

Age Range Age Structure

Ratio

(% of population)

at birth

1.05 males to one female

Birth rate:

12.3 births per

1,000 people – low.

0–14

19%

5,816,313 (males); 5,519,479 (females)

1.05 males to one female

Infant mortality:

6.3 boys and 5.0 girls

respectively per 1,000 live

births (1999).

15–64

65%

19,622,152 (males); 19,228,938 (females) 1.02 males to one female

65 and over 16%

3, 864,612 (males); 5,459,479 (females)

0.97 males to one female

OVERALL RATIO – 97 MEN FOR EVERY 100 WOMEN

28 years – average age of

women having first child.

Life expectancy now and in 1900 (in brackets)

MEN: 74 (45) WOMEN: 79 (50)

Most popular girls’

names in 2000:

England and Wales:

Chloe; Emily; Megan.

Scotland: Chloe; Rebecca;

Lauren.

There is a 33% chance a UK citizen will develop some kind

of cancer during their lifetime. Cancer is responsible for 25% of all deaths.

Number of people aged 100+

1996 – 5,500 1951 – 300

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HOME and FAMILY

Out of 100 people aged

16 and over

Over 14,200,000 homes are owned

by the people living in them –

68% of all dwellings. This figure

doubled in the period 1961–97.

EMPLOYMENT

In spring 2000:

36.3 million people of

working age in the

UK; 27 million people

in employment.

Over 90 in every 100 households

own a television, telephone,

deep freezer/fridge freezer

and a washing machine.

Over a third of house-

holds have a computer.

Part-time working

by men has tripled

since 1986.

Seven in ten

households own

a car or van.

Part-time working

by women has gone

up 25% since 1984.

are

married

are

single

are

widowed

are

divorced

Half the households

in Britain own a pet:

309,000 marriages each year.

Two in five involve one or both

partners remarrying.

8 million

have a cat

Types of Employment –

winners and losers

(1901–1999)

Agriculture down 83% –

only 2 in 100 people currently

work in this sector

An estimated 1.5 million couples

were cohabiting in England and

Wales in 1996 – the number is

expected to double by 2021.

7 million

have a dog

3 million keep fish

Mining and transport –

workforce halved

Average Household:

1925 = 4.6 people

1998/99 = 2.4 people

1 million keep budgerigars

Office work doubled –

4 in 10 people work in offices.

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1.5 million men

in the UK work

more than 60

hours a week

(spring 2000).

LIFESTYLES

The average UK adult

spends over 8.5 hours

asleep each day.

In 1998, 27 in every 100

holidays abroad taken by

UK citizens were in Spain.

Walking is the

nation’s most popular

form of exercise yet

the average distance

walked each year

continues to fall:

1985/86 – 138km;

1995/96 – 124km.

For men snooker or

pool comes second

and for women it is

yoga or keep fit.

People in the UK watch on

average 25 hours of TV

every week.

In the week prior to a

survey in spring 1999 – 5%

of women and 3.8% of men

had taken a day off work.

People in the UK listen to an

average 15 hours and 50 minutes

of radio each week.

Peak average income for men

in their 40s is almost twice as

high as that of women of the

same age: £392 compared to

£201 a week.

The top ‘take-away’

food in the UK is

fish and chips.

RIGHTS

There are two weekly draws in the

National Lottery – Wednesdays and

Saturdays. In 1998/99 over half of

the UK’s households bought at

least one lottery ticket a week.

The most common

activity away from home

is going to the pub:

18% of people questioned in

1998/99 had done this the

previous day.

October 2000 – Human Rights Act

becomes law.

It contains 14 articles guaranteeing

people’s civil liberties, including

guaranteeing rights to privacy

and freedom of expression.

There are 112 million

credit and other kinds

of plastic card in use in

the UK – eight in ten

Britons have more than

two kinds of ‘plastic’.

Free elections:

everyone over 18 has

the right to vote both

locally and nationally.

Meanwhile two thirds of all

payments over £1 are still

made in cash.

Britons made 123 million visits to

the cinema in 1998 making it the

most popular cultural activity in

the UK.

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ATTITUDES

to the UK

CITIZENSHIP

and SOCIAL

PARTICIPATION

One in five people do

unpaid charitable work

each year.

Sources

Adult Literacy Survey 1996

British Social Attitudes Survey 1998

CIA World Factbook 2000 (UK) –

www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

geos/uk.html

Eight in ten of the

general population

declare themselves

very or fairly strongly

attached to the UK.

The Big Turn Off

Madsden Pirie and Robert M. Worcester

(Adam Smith Institute 2000)

Three quarters of people

think ‘doing voluntary

work is a good thing’.

People In Britain

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Social Trends 30/31

The Stationery Office (2000/01)

Two thirds of young

people (15–24) feel

attached to the UK.

More than 6 million people –

one in seven of the UK adult

population – are carers. Three

quarters of this group are looking

after elderly relatives.

Under the new Citizenship

Curriculum, teachers are

expected to learn about ‘fairness,

social justice, respect for

democracy and diversity at

school, local, national and

global level, and through taking

part responsibly in community

activities.’

UK Tourism Survey 1998

Citizenship in Focus

by Simon Foster

(Collins Educational 1999)

The National Curriculum, including

the new Citizenship curriculum is

on-line at www.nc.uk.net

‘I call myself British because

the terms British and British-

Somalian mean the same thing

to me. I have lived here for four

years and my father moved here

in the 60s.’

NOORA AHMED (age 18)

Published by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London

Telephone: 020 7270 1500 Internet address: www.fco.gov.uk/

‘It’s difficult to find symbols that

accurately represent Britain.’

WILLIAM COOPER (age 19)

Details of other FCO publications are available from

www.informationfrombritain.com

There are 7,000 youth clubs in the

UK with a membership of 650,000

young people. Through them

people become involved in a

wide-range of community and

environmental projects.

Written by Jerome Monahan

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‘We are not just one homogeneous

people any more. Just look at the

cuisine – we’ve got Kurdish,

Greek, Chinese. That’s one of the

great things about being British.’

JASBINDER SINGH (age 22)

April 2001 Order No: 1043

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