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is London really getting older well new
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research suggests that London is the
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only major city in the UK that has been
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getting older over the past decade
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according to research from the
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resolution Foundation the median age in
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the capital increased from 33.8 to
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35.8 between 2011 and 2023 this makes
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London an outlier compared to many of
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the UK's other major cities Bristol
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Newcastle Cardiff and Nottingham have
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all gotten younger since 2001 in indeed
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excluding London the average age in the
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UK's core cities has fallen by 0.6 years
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in the period between 2001 and
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2023 the think tank said that the
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demographic Divergence between the UK
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cities could partly be explained by
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changing migration patterns since brexit
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young people have flocked to the UK
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cities in increasing numbers since
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departure from the EU but London's
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intake of young people has remained more
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or less unchanged the number of young
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people arriving each year in course
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cities outside of London averaged 15,000
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2023 up significantly from 6,000 between
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2018 in contrast the number of young
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people arriving in London dipped
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slightly to an average of 22,000 post
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brexit compared to 23,000 each year
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between 2002 and 2018 combined with this
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the resolution Foundation pointed out
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that London's birth rate has fallen
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faster than the national average in the
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21st century Nationwide the birth rate
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has fallen to 11 births per thousand
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people during the 2010s down from 12
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births per thousand people in the 2000s
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in London the equivalent figure has
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dropped to 14 per th000 in the 2010s
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from 16 births per thousand in the 2000s
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this alone has added 6 months to the
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capital's median age n cometti principal
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Economist of the resolution Foundation
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said many major cities across the
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Midland in the north are getting younger
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London is the one City Bucking this
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trend he added that changing immigration
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flows since brexit combined with falling
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birth rates from a baby bust steeper
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than the national average have worked
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together to age the capital over the
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past decade what do you think about the
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