Britain | Demography
Capital in the 21st century
London’s population is the same size as it was in 1939, but looks very different
IN HIS history of 20th-century London, published in 2008, Jerry White recalls that at the start of the millennium it seemed impossible that the capital would ever grow larger than its 1939 peak of 8.6m people. That belief was widely held. But this week statisticians announced that London had managed it.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "Capital in the 21st century"
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