The first bar chart illustrates the number of residents living in England and Wales from 1700 to 2000, while the second chart depicts these nations’ birth and death rate over the mentioned period.
Overall, a significant increase could be witnessed in the number of English and Welsh people. In addition, these countries’ birth rate was consistently greater than their death rate.
Regarding the first chart, about 9 million people inhabited England and Wales in 1700, after which this figure doubled in 1800, standing at nearly 17 million. The population of these nations kept rising dramatically 100 years later, with it being twice as many as that of 1800, at under 40%. In the final year, the number of inhabitants in these countries continued the trend, but at a slower pace, reaching south of 50 million.
In terms of the second chart, both the birth and death rate in England and Wales experienced a comparable trend. Starting at around 8% in 1700, the birth rate of these nations rocketed and reached its peak of approximately 23%, before remarkably declining by about 12%, ending at 11% in 2000. A similar pattern, but to a lesser extent, could be seen in the figure for the death rate, with it undergoing a noticeable decrease from over 16% in 1800 to exactly 5% in 2000 after noticeably rising by 10% in the first 100 years.