Talk:Optimum Population Trust

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[edit] Criticism of Population Growth Statement given on the website

I must admit that I haven't fully read the website, yet the following did pop out at me.

[edit] Incorrect Statistical statement?

Site : http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.more.ukpoptable.html Statement : “There are more than 60 million people living in the UK, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, and our numbers are rising faster than ever before. UK population is growing by the equivalent of a city larger than Cardiff every year. At an annual growth rate of 0.4% a year (less than the current rate) our population would pass 200 million by 2310.”

This last point seems to conflict with what google gives as the first hit (note : this does not indicate truthfulness – and it may be that both apparently conflicting sources of information are correct in their own ways). The first google hit on UK population growth is : https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/uk.html

This states that Population Growth Rate: 0.275% (2007 Est.).

Which source is correct? How would one guess as to which source is correct? Where are the raw statistics liable to be (some might say the Home Office Statistics department – but I'm not sure if even they given the raw statistics online). In fact, come to think of it – who's so sure that there are even 60 million people in the UK anymore? Hmmmm.....

ConcernedScientist 19:11, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

National Statistics state that the growth rate for the UK population in the year to mid 2006 was 0.6%. See http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=6 Admittedly, migration statistics are problematic, as found in the recent House of Lords Economic Affairs Committtee report. See http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldeconaf.htm

Simonross99 (talk) 18:25, 2 April 2008 (UTC)