Population of the Uk

What do you know about the population of the UK? I have found interesting statistics about the population of the UK for 2008 year. I find this information very interesting because I think that household of the UK is similar with household of our country. Especially I am surprised by the fact that the average age at first marriage rose between 1996 and 2006. For men it was 29.3 in 1996 and 31.8 in 2006. For women it rose from 27.2 to 29.7. For men who had been married and divorced at least once before, the average age at remarriage rose from 41.7 in 1996 to 46.0 in 2006. For women who had been married and divorced at least once before the equivalent ages were 38.6 and 43.1. This trend towards delayed marriage is not new. In 1966 the average age at first marriage was 24.9 for men and 22.5 for women. At remarriage it was 39.3 for men and 36.2 for women.

• There were 25.0 million households in Great Britain in Q2 2008, a 4 per cent increase on Q2 2001 when there were 23.9 million.
• In Q2 2008 around 10 million dependent children in the UK lived with two parents, the most common family arrangement. Of these the majority (8.3 million) lived with married parents. 
• In Q2 2008, 1.8 million men in the UK aged 20 to 34 lived with their parents, compared with 1.1 million women in the same age group. 
• There were around 237,000 marriages in England and Wales in 2006, the lowest number recorded since 1895. 
• The majority of people who married in the UK in 2006 did so for the first time: around 71 per cent of men and 72 per cent of women. 
• In 2007 the average age for women giving birth in England and Wales was 29.3 years, compared with 28.3 years in 1997 and 26.6 years in 1971. 

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