Population growth

• What was the population increase from 1520 to 1680?


  From 2.5 million to 5 million
• What was the average yearly rise in population?

  0.5%
• What percentage of the population was in the SE?

  3/4
• What percentage of people who lived outside of London lived in towns?

  5%
• How many people died during The Great Plague in London alone?

  69,000
• When did a number of foreign migrants arrive in England?

  1651
• Why did people migrate internally?

  In order to find employment
• What did greater job security lead to?

  More children being born
• How long had the country enjoyed domestic peace?

  Since 1485 and the end of the War of the Roses
• Why did the Kentish towns encourage migration?

  They were centres of the cloth trade and saw skilled foreign migrants
• Why did the poor leave towns and the countryside?

  Due to the poverty and so looked for a better life elsewhere
• What percentage of the Norwich population were migrants in 1600?

  35%
• What was discovered about Eyam in Derbyshire after The Great Plague?

  Children who died were replaced by surviving adults within 10 years
• What would younger marriages result in?

  A greater amount of children being born
• Why did deaths from plagues drop by 1625?

  Communities were adept at isolating individuals and containing the spread of disease
• How many towns had a population of over 5000 in 1600?

  8
• How many towns had a population over 5000 by 1700?

  30
• How many provincial towns were there?

  600-750