Due to the lack of authoritative contemporary sources, estimates of the population of England for dates prior to the first census in 1801 vary considerably. It has been suggested that even the 1801 census may have left up to 250,000 people uncounted.

Population

Some of the figures in this table are taken from that in the external link (marked #)

• 1066 - 1,100,000 at the time of the Norman invasion (1)
• 1215 - 2,500,000 at the time of Magna Carta
• 1348 - 3,750,000 at the time of the Black Death (1)
• 1350 - 2,500,000 after the Black Death
• 1570 - 4,800,000
• 1603 - 5,800,000 at the end of the Tudor period. # has 1630 for this figure
• 1700 - 6,500,000
• 1801 - 8,308,000 at the time of the first (one off) census (probably underestimated) Census officials estimated at the time that there had been an increase of 77% in the preceding 100 years. In each county women were in the majority.
• 1811 - 9,496,000
• 1821 - 11,158,000
• 1831 - 12,993,000
• 1841 - 14,866,000
• 1851 - 16,769,400 (beginning of regular censuses)
• 1861 - 18,776,300
• 1871 - 21,298,000
• 1881 - 24,402,700
• 1891 - 27,230,200
• 1901 - 30,515,000
• 1911 - 33,651,600

First World War

• 1921 - 35,230,200
• 1931 - 37,359,000

Second World War

• 1951 - 41,042,200
• 1961 - 43,983,300
• 1971 - 45,870,100
• 1981 - 46,623,500
• 1991 - 48,067,300
• 2001 - 49,138,831 .doc file
  • Notes for 1801 taken from Kent 1800-1899 - A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century Bob Ogley (Froglets Publications 2003) ISBN 1-872337-51-1

See also

• Population of the United Kingdom
  • Population of the nations of the United Kingdom
• National population register
• History of England
• UK topics

References

1. Josiah C Russel, Medieval Demographics, 1984.

External links

• Populstat population figure site - main source for 1801-1991
• Genealogical documents