United Kingdom 
Facts
Population: 60,776,238 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 17.2% (male 5,349,053/female 5,095,837)
15-64 years: 67% (male 20,605,031/female 20,104,313)
65 years and over: 15.8% (male 4,123,464/female 5,498,540) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.275% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 10.67 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 10.09 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 2.17 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.025 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 5.01 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 5.58 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 4.4 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 78.7 years
male: 76.23 years
female: 81.3 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.66 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.2% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 51,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 500 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Briton(s), British (collective plural)
adjective: British.
Ethnic groups: white (of which English 83.6%, Scottish 8.6%, Welsh 4.9%, Northern Irish 2.9%) 92.1%, black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%, other 1.6% (2001 census).
Religions: Christian (Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist) 71.6%, Muslim 2.7%, Hindu 1%, other 1.6%, unspecified or none 23.1% (2001 census).
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%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.93 trillion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 2.8% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $31,800 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1%
industry: 25.6%
services: 73.4% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 31.1 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 18.2%
services: 80.4% (2006 est.).
Population below poverty line: 17% (2002 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.1%
highest 10%: 28.5% (1999).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 2.9% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $973 billion
expenditures: $1.04 trillion; including capital expenditures of $87 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish.
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, other consumer goods.
Industrial production growth rate: 0% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 363.2 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 345.2 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 2.3 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 9.8 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $468.8 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals; food, beverages, tobacco.
Exports - partners: US 15.1%, Germany 10.5%, France 8.9%, Ireland 7.3%, Netherlands 5.5%, Belgium 5%, Spain 4.4% (2005).
Imports: $603 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: manufactured goods, machinery, fuels; foodstuffs.
Imports - partners: Germany 12.8%, US 8.7%, France 7.1%, Netherlands 6.6%, China 5%, Norway 4.7%, Belgium 4.6%, Italy 4% (2005).
Debt - external: $8.28 trillion (30 June 2006).
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $10.7 billion (2005).
Currency (code): British pound (GBP).
Exchange rates: British pounds per US dollar - 0.5418 (2006), 0.5493 (2005), 0.5462 (2004), 0.6125 (2003), 0.6672 (2002).
Fiscal year: 6 April - 5 April.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>>
Displaying 1 to 7 of 100 items.
Afkar-Inquiry
(Islamic-oriented), London
(Independent newsletter), London
http://www.africa-confidential.com/
Africa Events
(Monthly newsmagazine), London
Africa Newsfile
(Biweekly newsletter), London
Africa Today
(Monthly), London
African Business
(Monthly newsmagazine), London
African Concord
(Nigerian-owned), London
United Kingdom in the News
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>>
Displaying 21 to 24 of 57 items.
During a manhunt for four men seen on security cameras at the scenes of Thursday’s bungled bombing attacks on London’s public-transport system, police shot and killed a man in an Underground station Friday, who it turned out had nothing to do with the bombings.
The charity Bail for Immigration Detainees (B.I.D.) has called on the British government to immediately release all Zimbabwean nationals from Immigration Removal Centers.
On Oct. 6, the European Commission agreed to begin negotiations with Turkey on membership in the European Union. The international press responds to the European Commission’s decision to open the door to Turkey’s accession.
Americas 
