Population increase
The official population of England and Wales increased yesterday by the size of Middlesbrough because of an underestimate in net inward migration. The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys has revised its mid- 1991 population estimate for England and Wales from 50,955,000 to 51,100,000.
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