Census

Findings of Britain's latest census, first in 20 years:

P: 50,210,472 people live in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, an increase since 1931 of 4,172,115 or 9.1%. P:There are still more women than men: 26,083,923 v. 24,126,549. P: The birth rate, after falling for 60 years, leveled out just before the war, has since increased. In England and Wales there were 713,000 births in 1949-50, 626,000 in 1931-32.

P:745,000 more people (most European refugees, immigrants from the Commonwealth and Ireland) have entered Britain since 1931 than have emigrated. P:Britons seem to be moving slowly back to the country--or at least the suburbs. Britain's rural population is up about 2% (19.3% v. 17.6% in 1931).

P:Greater London, still the world's largest city, is shrinking: population dropped from an estimated 8,728,000 in 1939 to 8,346,137 in 1951.* Many Londoners evacuated during the war decided not to return.

* Greater New York: 7,888,400.

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