about demography

• Demography is the term used to describe the study of population and its change
• The information is gathered by the national consensus which is gathered every 10 years
• The government make the consensus mandatory so they know the correct number of resources needed.
• We need to collect this information as we need to inform social policies to see where money needs to be spent.

  This may include:

  • NHS
  • Housing
  • Schools
• Population has doubled since 1901:

  1901 - 32 Million

  2000 - 67 Million
• Birth Rate has reduced in triple amount since 1901:

  1901 - 29:1000

  2000 - 10:1000