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That's the population of the UK (England and Wales) in 2011 according to the first release of Census data from last year's count.
The Office for National Statistics released a batch of data on Monday this week, and there were some interesting points to be gleaned from it.

There's also been some discussion over the veracity of the data that was used.
Plenty of useful articles have already been produced in various places.

This BBC article picks out five interesting trends in the data...


Thanks to Lee for the comment below...


Comments

Lee said…
The population figure of 56.1m merely refers to England and Wales; the total population of the Uk, which additionally includes Scotland and Northern Ireland is well over 60m.
4 August 2012 at 20:53
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