Population of England

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Population of England increase from 1.1M in 1066 to over 49M in 2001.
Notes:
1066: Norman invasion
1215: Magna Carta
1348: Black Death
1603: End of Tudor period
1801: First census
1841: Regular censuses
1941: Second World War

Due to the lack of authoritative contemporary sources, estimates of the population of England for dates prior to the first census in 1801 vary considerably. It has been suggested that even the 1801 census may have left up to 250,000 people uncounted.

1 Population
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Population

Some of the figures in this table are taken from that in the external link (marked #)

1066 - 1,100,000 at the time of the Norman invasion ^[1]
1215 - 2,500,000 at the time of Magna Carta
1348 - 3,750,000 at the time of the Black Death ^[1]
1350 - 2,500,000 after the Black Death
1570 - 4,800,000
1603 - 5,800,000 at the end of the Tudor period. # has 1630 for this figure
1700 - 6,500,000
1801 - 8,308,000 at the time of the first (one off) census (probably underestimated) Census officials estimated at the time that there had been an increase of 77% in the preceding 100 years. In each county women were in the majority.^[2]
1811 - 9,496,000
1821 - 11,158,000
1831 - 12,993,000
1841 - 14,866,000 (beginning of regular censuses)
1851 - 16,769,400
1861 - 18,776,300
1871 - 21,298,000
1881 - 24,402,700
1891 - 27,230,200
1901 - 30,515,000
1911 - 33,651,600

First World War

1921 - 35,230,200
1931 - 37,359,000

Second World War

1951 - 41,042,200
1961 - 43,983,300
1971 - 45,870,100
1981 - 46,623,500
1991 - 48,067,300
2001 - 49,138,831 ^[3]
2005 - 50,431,700 ^[4]
2006 - 50,690,000^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Josiah C Russel, Medieval Demographics, 1984.
^ Notes for 1801 taken from Kent 1800-1899 - A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century Bob Ogley (Froglets Publications 2003) ISBN 1-872337-51-1
^ National Statistics, 2001 Census
^ National Statistics, UK population grows to more than 60m (2006-08-24)