The accountancy firm PwC said the number of people living in the capital could fall by more than , this year, from a record level of about 9 million in , to as low as 8. This would end decades of growth with the first annual drop since The forecast comes as city-dwellers rethink their living situations during lockdown and a boom in home working during the pandemic encourages growing numbers of people to consider moving elsewhere.
Other drivers include a smaller number of graduates moving to London , fewer job opportunities in the capital and lower international migration to the city as a result of the pandemic and Brexit. London is sometimes held up as a beacon of tolerance and inclusion. There is some truth in this. Perceptions of community cohesion are fairly high, gaps in educational achievement between ethnic groups are lower than elsewhere in England, and there has been an increase in the visibility of business and political figures from BAME backgrounds over the last decade or so.
Big cities are often held to be more dangerous than rural areas and smaller towns: perceptions of London as unsafe go back hundreds of years, and are still held by some people from other parts of the UK today. The murder rate in London is about 50 per cent higher than the England and Wales average 26 and has been rising for the last five years.
However, it remains lower than that of international comparator cities such as New York and Paris. Confidence levels in the police are very similar to those throughout the rest of the UK, but, these vary considerably by ethnicity: Black Caribbean people are much less happy with policing than people from other ethnic groups.
London is the wealthiest part of the UK in terms of Gross Domestic Product GDP , and is also home to some of the wealthiest people in the world, with more billionaires than any other global city. These differences are longstanding, but earnings inequality between London and the rest of the UK has slightly reduced over the last few decades: London wages have risen slower than wages in every other English region. Despite the presence of some extremely wealthy people in the city, average personal wealth is lower than elsewhere in southern England — houses are worth more, but fewer people own them.
London does nonetheless have the highest pension wealth in the country, a legacy of historically high incomes. The difference is particularly stark for people at the beginning and towards the end of their lives, and for those workers on low incomes. Restrictions on the housing element of benefits and caps on the total amount of benefits available have worsened the situation for some Londoners.
Poverty in London is compounded and complicated by other forms of inequality. As we have seen, children are the group most likely to live in poverty — although the disadvantages of being poor as a child in London are somewhat mitigated by the quality of the education system and the range of cultural and leisure activities on offer in comparison to some other parts of the UK.
BAME people in London are almost twice as likely to live in poverty as White people 36 — they tend to earn less because of racism in education 37 and employment 38 and, in some cases, because of the employment disadvantages brought about by immigration particularly when people have come to the country unable to speak much English.
Over time, these inequalities of income compound into inequalities of wealth and assets. Overall, London has a higher life expectancy than the rest of the UK — which may in part be driven by lower rates of dangerous alcohol use 40 and of physical inactivity. Men in Newham enjoy 13 fewer years of healthy life than their counterparts in Richmond upon Thames.
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The latest official estimate of the population of London comes from the Office for National Statistics. According to their data, the estimated population of Greater London in is 8,, The Census in the United Kingdom takes place every ten years, with the most recent one completed in According to this census, the population of London was 8,, The next census in England and Wales is scheduled for London's population makes it by far the largest city in the United Kingdom.
The second largest city in the UK - Birmingham - has a population of 1. It is the third largest city in Europe , behind Istanbul Estimating London's population is made more complicated by the various ways of defining the city. Here are just a few of the methods of breaking down London's geography along with estimates of their population. Generally, throughout this article, we've used the term London for simplicity, but when we're referring to modern day London, we mean Greater London.
The City of London is a much smaller area just over a square mile with less than 10, residents, although over , people commute there for work. The Greater London area is much larger, coming to about square miles 1, square kilometers.
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