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Baby gifts soar as population booms - 28/08/09

The UK population increased by a record amount last year to top 61 million for the first time, figures revealed.

There were 408,000 more people living here in 2008, the Office for National Statistics said. That takes the total population to 61.4 million - an increase of more than two million over 2001.

The increase was driven by a baby boom as fertility rates shot up to their highest rates in a generation, sparking a flurry of baby gift buying.

The increase is the highest since modern records began in 1972 and more than twice the increase of 2001 when the population rose by 201,000. The ONS confirmed the increase in population was the highest in nearly 50 years.

In 1962 the population rose by 484,000 and in 1947 the post-war baby boom drove up population levels by more than half a million (551,000).

For the first time in nearly a decade natural changes to the population caused by shifts in birth and death rates have overtaken immigration as the biggest factor affecting population growth.

The vast wave of immigrants who came here from Eastern Europe after the EU expanded in 2004 has slowed to a trickle, as the recession took hold, the figures showed.

     

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