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United Kingdom



United Kingdom People:

Population:
60,441,457 (July 2005 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 17.7% (male:5,490,592; female:5,229,691)
15-64 years: 66.5% (male:20,329,272; female:19,855,862)
65 years and over: 15.8% (male:4,063,357; female:5,472,683) (2005)

Median age:
total: 38.99 years
male: 37.89 years
female: 40.13 years (2005)

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.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female (2005)
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female (2005)
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female (2005)
65 years and over: 0.74 male(s)/female (2005)
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2005)

Infant mortality rate:
total: 5.16 deaths / 1,000 live births (2005 est.)
male: 5.76 deaths / 1,000 live births
female: 4.53 deaths / 1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total: 78.38 years (2005 est.)
male: 75.94 years
female: 80.96 years

Total fertility rate:
1.66 children born/woman (2005 est.)

HIV/AIDS — adult prevalence rate:
0.2% (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS — people living with HIV/AIDS:
51,000 (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS — deaths:
less than 500 (2003 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Briton(s), British (collective plural)
adjective: British

Ethnic groups:
white 92.1% (English 83.6%, Scottish 8.6%, Welsh 4.9%, Northern Irish 2.9%), black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%, other 1.6% (2001)

Religions:
Christian (Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist) 71.6%, Muslim 2.7%, Hindu 1%, other 1.6%, unspecified or none 23.1% (2001)

Languages:
English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling
total population: 99% (2000)
male: NA
female: NA



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Washington D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 2005
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