Population
The 'oldest old' are the fastest growing sub-group of the population
Population aged 90 years and over: by sex, Great Britain
• There were 61.0 million people resident in the UK in 2007, an increase of almost 400,000 (0.6 per cent) on 2006 - the equivalent of an average increase of around 1,000 people a day. (Table 1.1) Latest information on population
• More boys than girls have been born each year in the UK since 1922. Out of the 772,200 live births in 2007 around 396,700 (51 per cent) were male and 375,500 were female. (Page 2)
• The proportion of the UK population aged under 16 dropped below the proportion over state pension age for the first time in 2007. (Table 1.2) Latest information on population estimates
• In 1971 there were around 96,000 women and 29,000 men aged 90 and over in Great Britain. By 2007 these numbers had increased more than threefold to 311,000 women and 106,000 men. (Figure 1.3)
• Around 173,000 people left the UK for work-related reasons in 2007, compared with 139,000 in 1997. (Table 1.11) Latest information on migration
• In 2007 there were 160,980 applications for British citizenship, a rise of 8 per cent on 2006. (Page 10)
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