United Kingdom 
Facts
Population:
59,647,790 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
18.89% (male 5,778,415; female 5,486,114)
15-64 years:
65.41% (male 19,712,932; female 19,304,771)
65 years and over:
15.7% (male 3,895,921; female 5,469,637) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.23% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
11.54 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
10.35 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
1.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.71 male(s)/female
total population:
0.97 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
5.54 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
77.82 years
male:
75.13 years
female:
80.66 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.73 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.11% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
31,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
450 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Briton(s), British (collective plural)
adjective:
British
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%
Religions:
Anglican 27 million, Roman Catholic 9 million, Muslim 1 million, Presbyterian 800,000, Methodist 760,000, Sikh 400,000, Hindu 350,000, Jewish 300,000 (1991 est.)
Languages:
English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling
total population:
99% (1978 est.)
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $1.36 trillion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $22,800 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
1.7%
industry:
24.9%
services:
73.4% (1999)
Population below poverty line:
17%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.6%
highest 10%:
27.3% (1991)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.4% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
29.2 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 1%, industry 19%, services 80% (1996 est.)
Unemployment rate:
5.5% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$555.2 billion
expenditures:
$510.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $37.7 billion (FY00)
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
Industrial production growth rate:
2% (2000)
Electricity - production:
342.771 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
69.38%
hydro:
1.55%
nuclear:
26.68%
other:
2.39% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
333.012 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
265 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
14.5 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish
Exports:
$282 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals; food, beverages, tobacco
Exports - partners:
EU 58% (Germany 12%, France 10%, Netherlands 8%), US 15% (1999)
Imports:
$324 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
manufactured goods, machinery, fuels; foodstuffs
Imports - partners:
EU 53% (Germany 14%, France 9%, Netherlands 7%), US 13%, Japan 5% (1999)
Debt - external:
$NA
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $3.4 billion (1997)
Currency:
British pound (GBP)
Currency code:
GBP
Exchange rates:
British pounds per US dollar - 0.6764 (January 2001), 0.6596 (2000), 0.6180 (1999), 0.6037 (1998), 0.6106 (1997), 0.6403 (1996)
Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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Section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act of 2004 creates a risk that asylum seekers and their families will be left destitute and their children taken into care.
In a petition published in The Times earlier this month, the Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu; the Roman Catholic Bishop of Lancaster, the Rev. Patrick O'Donoghue; chairperson of the Methodist Church's Oxford & Leicester District, the Rev. Alison Tomlin and their fellow bishops and church leaders said it was inhuman and unacceptable that some people are left homeless and destitute by government policies.
An investigation by the leading children’s charity, Barnardo’s and the Refugee Children’s Consortium has revealed the serious damage being done to vulnerable children by the British government’s new asylum and immigration policy.
Last week, three judges in Britain’s Asylum and Immigration Tribunal criticized the British Home Office’s policy on deportations to Zimbabwe and said the lack of interest of the home secretary in how Zimbabwean authorities dealt with returned nationals was “alarming.”
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