| Population :
| 60,270,708 (July 2004 est.) .
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| Age structure 0-14 % :
| 18%.
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| Age structure 0-14.m :
| 5 560 489.
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| Age structure 0-14.f :
| 5 293 871.
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| Age structure 15-64 % :
| 66,30%.
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| Age structure 15-64.m :
| 20 193 876.
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| Age structure 15-64.f :
| 19 736 516.
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| Age structure 65 % :
| 15,70%.
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| Age structure 65.m :
| 4 027 721.
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| Age structure 65.f :
| 5 458 235.
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| Age structure est :
| 2004 est..
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| Median age total :
| 38.7 years .
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| Median age male :
| 37.6 years .
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| Median age female :
| 39.8 years (2004 est.) .
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| Population growth rate :
| 0.29% (2004 est.) .
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| Population growth rate note :
| .
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| Birth rate :
| 10.88 births/1,000 population (2004 est.) .
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| Death rate :
| 10.19 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.) .
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| Net migration rate :
| 2.19 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.) .
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| Sex ratio at birth :
| 1.05 male(s)/female .
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| Sex ratio under 15 :
| 1.05 male(s)/female .
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| Sex ratio 15-64 :
| 1.02 male(s)/female .
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| Sex ratio 65 :
| 0.74 male(s)/female .
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| Sex ratio total :
| 0.98 male(s)/female (2004 est.) .
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| Infant mortality rate male :
| 5.83 deaths/1,000 live births .
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| Infant mortality rate female :
| 4.58 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.) .
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| Life expectancy at birth total :
| 78.27 years .
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| Life expectancy at birth male :
| 75.84 years .
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| Life Expectancy at birth female :
| 80.83 years (2004 est.) .
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| Total fertility rate :
| 1.66 children born/woman (2004 est.) .
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| hiv aids :
| 0.1% (2001 est.) .
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| hiv aids people :
| 34,000 (2001 est.) .
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| hiv aids deaths :
| 460 (2001 est.) .
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| Nationality noun :
| Briton(s), British (collective plural) .
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| Nationality adjective :
| British .
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| Ethnic groups :
| English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8% .
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| Religions :
| Anglican and Roman Catholic 40 million, Muslim 1.5 million, Presbyterian 800,000, Methodist 760,000, Sikh 500,000, Hindu 500,000, Jewish 350,000 .
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| Languages :
| English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland) .
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| Literacy definition :
| age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling .
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| Literacy total :
| 99% (2000 est.) .
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| Literacy male :
| NA .
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| Literacy female :
| NA .
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| Government type :
| constitutional monarchy .
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| Independence :
| England has existed as a unified entity since the 10th century; the union between England and Wales, begun in 1284 with the Statute of Rhuddlan, was not formalized until 1536 with an Act of Union; in another Act of Union in 1707, England and Scotland agreed to permanently join as Great Britain; the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was implemented in 1801, with the adoption of the name the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalized a partition of Ireland; six northern Irish counties remained part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland and the current name of the country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was adopted in 1927 .
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| National holiday :
| the UK does not celebrate one particular national holiday .
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| Suffrage :
| 18 years of age; universal .
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| Economy overview :
| The UK, a leading trading power and financial center, is one of the quartet of trillion dollar economies of Western Europe. Over the past two decades the government has greatly reduced public ownership and contained the growth of social welfare programs. .
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| Population below poverty line :
| 17% (2002 est.) .
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| Labor force by occupation :
| agriculture 1%, industry 25%, services 74% (1999) .
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| Agriculture products :
| cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish .
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| Industries :
| machine tools, electric power equipment, automation equipment, railroad equipment, shipbuilding, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, electronics and communications equipment, metals, chemicals, coal, petroleum, paper and paper products, food processing, textiles, clothing, and other consumer goods .
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| Exports commodities :
| manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals; food, beverages, tobacco .
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| Exports partners :
| US 15.7%, Germany 10.5%, France 9.5%, Netherlands 6.9%, Ireland 6.5%, Belgium 5.6%, Spain 4.4%, Italy 4.4% (2003 est.) .
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| Imports commodities :
| the UK does not celebrate one particular national holiday .
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| Imports partners :
| the UK does not celebrate one particular national holiday .
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| Internet users :
| 25 million (2002) .
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| Hymne :
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Hen Wlad fy Nhadau
(Land of my Fathers)
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Version galloise :
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Cymraeg
Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion enwogion o fri
Ei gwrol ryfelwr, gwlad garwyr tra mad
Tros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.
Gwlad Gwlad,
Pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad,
Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau
Version anglaise :
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Land of my Fathers, O land of the free,
A land of poets and minstrels, famed men.
Her brave warriors, patriots much blessed,
It was for freedom that they lost their blood.
Wales ! Wales !
I am devoted to my country.
So long as the sea is a wall to this fair beautiful
land, May the ancient language remain..
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