Jill Matheson
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first heard Dec 2010
last heard Dec 2012
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My number of the year has to be 56.1 million.
That's the population of England and Wales announced in July from the latest census.
That's nearly 4 million people more than a decade earlier.
And we know, we've known for some time that we're an ageing population, with one in six of us now aged 65 or over.
But what's also interesting is the other end of the age spectrum.
With 10.6 million children in England and Wales, that's more than there have ever been in the country before.
And in particular, there's been a big increase in the number of very young children under the age of five, over 400,000 more than 10 years ago.
One of the interesting findings from the census release in December that got us all talking in the office was
was the increase in the proportion of the population who said they had no religion.
That was 15% in 2001, and it's gone up to 25%, a quarter of us, in 2011.
In fact, the place in the country that had the highest proportion of people saying they had no religion was Norwich.
So four out of ten people in Norwich said they had no religion.
I think this has been a really important year for statistics.
Throughout the year, we've been documenting what's happening to the economy, so a huge amount of interest in that.
Towards the end of the year, there was particular interest in the labour market figures, with ONS reporting in December that unemployment had reached 2.64 million.
That's the highest for 17 years, and I expect that interest in the labour market to continue into 2012.
We also showed at the same time that the number of people working beyond the age of 65 had doubled in just 10 years to just short of 900,000 people today.
And the continued ageing of the population was perhaps demonstrated by the 12,500 people who celebrated their 100th birthday during 2011.
And we expect that number to rise to more than 100,000 over the next 25 years.
So continuing ageing of the population.
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