home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ TIME: Almanac 1990 / 1990 Time Magazine Compact Almanac, The (1991)(Time).iso / time / world / u / ukingdom.2 < prev    next >
Text File  |  1991-04-11  |  1KB  |  38 lines
  1.  People
  2.  
  3. Population: 57,365,665 (July 1990), growth rate 0.3% (1990).
  4.  
  5. Birth rate: 14 births/1,000 population (1990).
  6.  
  7. Death rate: 11 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
  8.  
  9. Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
  10.  
  11. Infant mortality rate: 7 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
  12.  
  13. Life expectancy at birth: 73 years male, 79 years female (1990).
  14.  
  15. Total fertility rate: 1.8 children born/woman (1990).
  16.  
  17. Nationality: noun--Briton(s), British (collective pl.); 
  18. adjective--British.
  19.  
  20. Ethnic divisions: 81.5% English, 9.6% Scottish, 2.4% Irish, 
  21. 1.9% Welsh, 1.8% Ulster, 2.8% West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, 
  22. and other.
  23.  
  24. Religion: 27.0 million Anglican, 5.3 million Roman Catholic, 
  25. 2.0 million Presbyterian, 760,000 Methodist, 410,000 Jewish.
  26.  
  27. Language: English, Welsh (about 26% of population of Wales), 
  28. Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland).
  29.  
  30. Literacy: 99%.
  31.  
  32. Labor force: 28,120,000; 53.3% services, 23.6% manufacturing 
  33. and construction, 10.8% self-employed, 6.8% government, 
  34. 1.0% agriculture (1988).
  35.  
  36. Organized labor: 37% of labor force (1987).
  37.  
  38.