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Old Posted Oct 31, 2010, 2:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Degsy View Post
France will still have a smaller population than the UK though....

Britain to be biggest country in Europe by 2050

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...e-by-2050.html
Well nope. These British population projections are old, they were made before the start of the economic crisis, assuming an unsustainably high net migration rate that corresponded to the pre-crisis boom years. Also, they didn't take into account the new French population projections.
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Originally Posted by Degsy View Post
And France does not have a population of 65.4m today, its just under 63m like the UK......and please dont give my any nonsense about including overseas department populations in your stats...
Well then surely we should also not include Northern Ireland in the British population. So the UK has only 59 million inhabitants.
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