Talk:Demographics of the United Kingdom

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This means that the child mortality rate in the early 18th C was 7.45%, and in the early 19th C, it was 3.18%. These figures seem extraordinary low. I don’t have access to the source given, which is a book. 
In an article ‘Urbanization and Mortality in Britain, c. 1800-50.’ by Romola J Davenport, in The Economic History Review  , it says: “In London infant mortality was around 300–400 deaths per 1,000 births in the mid-eighteenth century, compared with the national average of c. 180 per 1,000.” i.e. in the 18th C infant mortality in London was around 30-40%. This seems more likely than the figure of 7.45% currently given in the article (which is in fact for children up to the age of 5, rather than in the first year of life). 
The Davenport article also says: “this study finds good evidence for widespread increases in mortality in the second quarter of the nineteenth century” which contradicts the statement in our article: “During the Industrial Revolution, child mortality decreased dramatically”. 
Any comments? Sweet6970 (talk) 12:30, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Child mortality in London, 18th & 19th C 

message: Proposing to merge Countries of the United Kingdom by population, no need for such a short article on the population of the different countries of the UK when 1; we already cover it here 2; the two topics overlap massively and the table used on that page can be combined here so the two should be merged - Tweedledumb2 (talk) 18:33, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: support. The creator of the stub was possibly unaware of this article, DMBanks1 (talk) 17:44, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

text: Support, the table can be merged incorporated into the existing article. N1TH Music (talk) 13:02, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Oppose they're separated for a reason. Great Mercian (talk) 10:29, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: But for what reason is there to keep the two separated? Again, you can find practically the same data here under the 'Population distribution across the country' table in the first section of Population currently so I don't really see the point of keeping a separate stub when a redirect to that particular section can be provided instead. Tweedle (talk) 22:29, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm more concerned of whether or not the populations of each individual country in a specific year (I.e. Population of England in 1989) will be preserved. Great Mercian (talk) 17:48, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This is already preserved in each countries individual demographics page under 'Vital Statistics', see here for each; England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. The article I am requesting to merge with this one here does not cover this. Tweedle (talk) 20:24, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Support, I feel like this article could just be a new section near to the bottom of the page. 你好... (Community Centre) 01:44, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: Can someone update the population statistics for some of the urban areas to the stats provided by the ONS? Specifically West Midlands seems way too high. Sargon.solo (talk) 10:13, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: We can't update the population statistics just yet for urban areas as to my knowledge they have not been released yet, however good spot on West Midlands figure, that was incorrect to which I have now corrected. Tweedle (talk) 23:59, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urban Areas Population Figures 

message: "Migration Watch" is an organization which openly declares on their homepagehttps://www.migrationwatchuk.org/about-us that they have a political agenda. That's why they cannot be taken as a reliable source (apart from the fact that their homepage is certainly no peer-reviewed academic journal). So, I deleted the text based on their homepage from Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom#Ethnic_demographic_breakdown. The sentence "For the overwhelming majority of its established history, the United Kingdom has been ethnically homogenous society with few minorities." doesn't look like many Scottish or Welsh people would agree. Rsk6400 (talk) 18:18, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm Scottish. It depends what you would mean by that. If you mean that the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish are different peoples to the English I'd agree. I'd also throw in the Cornish, Travelling Folk, certain islanders (Shetland, Manx, Channel Islanders etc) and the longer established Jewish populations perhaps. However, if they are referring to skin colour, then that would be largely true, except possibly in the Roman period, and even that's dubious.-81.154.201.17 (talk) 18:43, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text based on "Migration Watch" 

message: The "Before the Census" section is clearly anglocentric and fails to deal with the other three parts of the UK to any significant degree. 81.154.201.17 (talk) 18:40, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Instead of moaning why don't you add a section that expands on the other kingdoms, lack of other information is not Anglo centric the existence of England doesn't automatically make Wales disappear, how insecure are you? 2A00:23EE:1CD8:B59F:DF0D:DEB7:9EEB:7BDD (talk) 20:23, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anglocentrism 

message: There is an incongruity in the labelling of the x-axis in the graph 'Opposite-sex marriage rates in England and Wales over time'. 146.199.14.211 (talk) 13:51, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect labelling of graph axis 

message: Shouldnt it be called "Demographics of the United Kingdom" instead of "Demography"? I've never seen another page on a countries demographics called "Demographcy of X" instead of "Demographics of X". 108.28.81.224 (talk) 05:34, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the British English common utilisation is "demography", rather than "demographics". There is a dicusssion before on this here for instance Tweedle (talk) 11:51, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change? 

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thread_title:  Move discussion in progress