Annual Birth, Marriage and Death registrations in England and Wales from 1838 to 1999

A vast amount of information covering all aspects of life in the United Kingdom is freely available from the Office of National Statistics on-line statbase. Although most of the database is concerned with recent statistics some historical information is available; this includes the annual number of birth, marriage and death registrations from 1838 until 1999, collated in the graph below. I have also added an estimate of annual population growth, calculated from the excess of birth registrations over death registrations.

Notes: Marriage data from 1840 to 1929 is based on five year averages. War deaths not registered in England and Wales are not included. Annual growth is based on the excess of deaths over births and excludes immigration and emigration. The population of England and Wales [estimated from census returns] was as follows: Year 1801 1851 1901 1951 1991 Population 8,892,000 17,927,000 32,528,000 43,758,000 51,099,000 Estimate from 'annual growth' from 1851   Base Year 33,687,000 46,136,000 52,223,000

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