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Showing posts with label Population. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Population. Show all posts

23 October 2007

Population Growth

Apparently in less than a decade, Britain's population will reach 65 million, 71 million by 2031 and 77 million by 2051. Because we're all going to be living longer and having more kids, along with an increase in immigration.

Which is a bit of surprise, really, since I thought we were all going to kill ourselves by eating too much and becoming obese, smoking too much, or drinking too much. Or all three together. Not including everything else that is apparently going to kill us, such as climbing ladders or playing conkers.

Obviously either that's a load of bollocks, based on "intelligent guesses", or this population projection is. I suppose they could be banking on the NHS becoming good enough to save us all after we almost kill ourselves with our eating, drinking and smoking - but I don't think there's enough money in the world to do that with the NHS in it's current state.

Source and Image: BBC

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