Latest national projections (2008-based)

The Office for National Statistics published the latest (2008-based) principal projections for the United Kingdom and constituent countries on 21 October 2009. These replace the previous 2006-based projections. The main six 'standard' variant 2008-based projections, at UK and individual country level, were also published on 21 October 2009. These show the future population possibilities under alternative assumptions of high or low fertility, mortality and migration. Natural change only (zero migration), high population and low population variants for all countries were also published on 21 October 2009. Additional variants for all countries, including selected combinations of the variant assumptions and other special case scenarios will be published on 18 November 2009.

A News Release on the 2008-based projections and detailed results for each country can be obtained from the National Statistics website.

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